Stop Look and Listen

Did you know there in an American “Rear View Mirror Safety Club”? Well they are listed as a contributor in this entertaining and entirely car-free look at the fun and dangers of driving. It is the dapper gentleman (Chuck Menville) who gets into his invisible car - he is basically sitting on the tarmac, and sets off for work. Meantime, the boy racer (Len Janson) sets off for his joy ride bedecked in his sunglasses and smoking his cigar. He catches up with our suited chap and thinks he sees an easy mark to engage in a bit of “Whacky Races” in the hills above the city. It gets off to quite an amiable start and uses a more innovative method to teach us a few rudiments of road safety and etiquette as the two embark on a sort of motorised duel with the former largely unaware that he is even competing! The camerawork produces plenty of quirkily framed images that are tightly edited to deliver quite a quickly paced ten minutes of light-heartedness with the sound effects doing much of the work and though maybe a bit long, it’s still worth a watch to see if Terry-Thomas is going to make a guest appearance.