William Boyett plays the hard nosed state highway patrol cop lecturing stupid farm boys about not driving in front of trains right before they die that way. I watched this on Youtube as an MST3K episode with Mike Nelson as the main host (not Joel, so it's funnier). If you are looking for it it is the short for the episode with the film Radar Secret Service, which I have not watched yet but will after doing this review. As I stated William Boyett is the main character here, lecturing everyone about traffic safety, he is a straight nosed highly unlikable type of character actor, I most know him as the A' hole in the Adam 12 TV show that is always competing with Malloy and Reed for either the best bust or the last donut, the kind of guy you love to hate. Or maybe he wasn't and was Malloy and Reed's immediate boss, either way he sucks and to have him lecturing you in a movie about traffic safety would only happen to me if it was ordered by the court. Now add some MST3K riffing and what we have here is an outstanding piece of comedy! I mean I literally laughed out loud a dozen times, it was THAT GOOD! 8 of 10 see it, go to youtube and see it now! And stop at all RR crossing you hear?

This silly safety short film really doesn't help any with safety, except it teaches not to be incredibly stupid. The movie is about half narration and half is about a family on a farm talking to a cop. We start the film off seeing the cop at the funeral for Frank Jr., which could have been avoided. Frank and his girlfriend Betty could've avoided death by simply not being so stupid. They look backwards and wave at Frank's brother for about 30 seconds before they finally get hit by a train. Is this really a safety video, or is it simply a short produced by the railroads to say that it's never their fault? The whole thing is very corny, and unhelpful, and the only positive is some surprisingly fresh camera work for such a dumb project.My rating: BOMB/****. 25 mins.

For those who don't know, Operation Lifesaver is that company that is really into preventing train-car accidents. You might see their logo on some train locomotives. But Operation Lifesaver's from the early 70s, and this film was the 50s! This has a strong message about railroad crossing safety. They didn't have the striped gates back then; all they had were lights, bells, and occasional wig-wag signals.The acting is kind of bad, and so is the overuse of stock footage.However, you get to see a lot of neat classic Union Pacific trains (they're all diesel locomotives, since steam engines were obsolete back then and the electric locomotives didn't get popular until recently). I must admit, the train sound effects sound REALLY old. They use those old deep foghorn-like train horns. Those type of whistles got out of date in the mid-50s, and were replaced with the train horns you hear today (even if you live slightly far from the tracks, you can still sometimes hear train horns during the winter when all the leaves are down). They could've just recorded newer train sounds and used them there, so the trains don't sound so dated.The classic cars and trucks used in this movie look really classy, too. You don't see many of THOSE driving around nowadays, do you? I also like the old stock music used here, too. It gives the movie a "sitcom" feel.But we don't get to see the actual sequence of the train striking the car! We just see the train approaching, fade to black, and then silence. Then we see the wrecked car. They could've just added a big, grinding crashing sound during the silence, with metal crunching, glass breaking, the usual stuff heard when a train destroys a car. At least THAT would be more realistic.But, I still love this cheesy, classic movie.

Last clear Chance is a mercifully short film (although it feels like it lasts forever) about watching out for trains at rail crossings. About the only good thing I can say about this short is that it's in color. Everything else is just plain terrible. Bad acting, overly predictable script, and some stock footage shoot it down.