Traffic with the Devil

1946
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19 min

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaThis "Theater of Life" series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as described and experienced by Sgt. Charles Reineke, a traffic enforcement officer with the Los Ang... Ler tudoThis "Theater of Life" series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as described and experienced by Sgt. Charles Reineke, a traffic enforcement officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.This "Theater of Life" series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as described and experienced by Sgt. Charles Reineke, a traffic enforcement officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Charles Reineke

Self - Narrator
(as Police Sgt. Charles Reineke)

Ben Hall

Out-of-Gas Motorist
(não creditado)

Ralph Montgomery

Motorist
(não creditado)

Eva Puig

Driver of Ford Deluxe Convertible
(não creditado)

Jason Robards Sr.

Irate Motorist
(não creditado)

Ray Spiker

Irate Motorist, Honking Horn
(não creditado)

Direção
- Gunther von Fritsch
Roteirista
- Herbert Morgan
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Michael_Elliott

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Traffic with the Devil (1946)

** (out of 4)

This two-reeler is one of the films in MGM's Theatre of Life series, which took real life cases from the newspaper and tried to teach the public something. This film takes a look at LAPD Sgt. Charles Reineke who works on a motorcycle overlooking various traffic issues. I guess you could call this an early Highway Safety film as it pretty much shows us how bad drivers operate while the final five minutes of the film shows us what happens when you speed or don't pay attention while you're driving. Those final minutes show several dead people lying in the streets and also shows, in rather graphic detail, dead children thrown from cars. Overall the film is pretty boring due to the slow and bland narration, which really brings down the entertainment value. The film also goes on way too long for its subject as a lot of the same things get repeated throughout the film.

9mcbride500

Great snap shot of life in L.A. in 1946.

I caught this on AMC and loved it! It is a documentary about traffic safety from the eyes of a motorcycle cop. I love how it shows fashions, autos and scenery of the real L.A. right after the war. This post-war, pre-Elvis time period is one that I find interesting and this film sheds some light on life in America then.

It was filmed about the same time as "It's a Wonderful Life." Life depicted in this film is very different from life portrayed in Bedford Falls.

I understand that it won an Oscar but I cannot find a copy of the film for purchase. If you find a source, let us know!

7bkoganbing

How America was changed with the automobile

This short subject narrated by LAPD motorcycle patrol sergeant Charles Reineke demonstrates how the automobile changed American life for better or worse post World War II.

I say that because in 1946 with the first of new cars rolling out of Detroit that year in four years because of the war, America really took to the highways. Let us also not forget all the driving restrictions of all those old cars still out there during the war. We as a nation were going to enjoy that new prosperity symbolized by the automobile and the vast quantities thereof.

Reineke got a bit personal here as he describes his job and how his profession is not one of the most beloved. That's the truth, but the other side of that story is the thousands of little hole in the wall towns known as speed traps and the revenue from ticketed drivers support the place.

Still traffic safety then as now is a problem, a bigger problem 66 years after this film was made. How many cars on the road now, I shudder to think.

Traffic With The Devil got an Oscar nomination for Documentary Short Subject. Kind of dated now to say the least, but the message is timeless.

7SnoopyStyle

bland start turns into real-life bloodbath

The narrator is LAPD Sgt. Charles Reineke who patrols the highways around L. A. on his motorcycle. These are his stories. This short film is part of the Theatre of Life series.

This is trying to be a warning against reckless driving. It's rather pedestrian for the first ten minutes and then it explodes with a montage of real life accident aftermaths. There is plenty of blood. The carnage is real. This short would be more effective if it concentrates on those footages. It needs to shock and awe this subject matter.

8bubbarian

I'll drive safer!

Every driver should see this! The world would be a safer place. The images of death and destruction are a blunt reality check. I wish they'd still shown this type of thing when I was in Driver's Ed. Somebody should remake this eye-opening short.

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Curiosidades
Charles Reineke, the officer on the motorcycle, was actually a sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department Traffic Unit when this short movie was made.

Erros de gravação
After a deadly accident, the narrator says, "But now his epitaph is only a pin at the intersection of Washington and Vermont", as an officer places a pushpin in a map. However, the simultaneous closeup of the Los Angeles map shows the officer placing the pin somewhere west of Olympic and Normandie, about a mile and a half northwest of the stated intersection.

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Officer Charles Reineke: [voiceover] Of all the thankless jobs... You're supposed to be here to protect people, but they act like a cop was their natural enemy.
Officer Charles Reineke: [a couple looks at him with suspicion, with a child in the back seat sticking out his tongue; then a pretty woman driving a car smiles at him] Well... most people, that is. People who don't hate cops are scared of cops; they should be scared without 'em. You have to get off the highway occasionally, or you find yourself leading a parade.
Officer Charles Reineke: [pulls off road up to a vantage point overlooking the highway] That's what it is - a parade. Twenty-seven cars passing there every minute; average speed, 51 miles an hour. Forty years ago, it was eight cars a day; top speed, 26 miles an hour. Fifty years ago, there were wagons averaging 26 miles a day. Sixty years ago, that road was a cattle trail. People traveling a thousand miles like they once went 50. Speeding up their lives. People going a mile a minute to work, or play, out for the job, or getting away from it all. Going home, or looking for greener pastures. A new generation, freed from limitations of time and space. A nation on wheels - a nation going places. Give him a car, and every man's a king on the highway.