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Crashing the Movies

Crashing the Movies

Comedy

8m

January 28, 1950 (75 years ago)

Overview

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a pane of glass, a car being driven up a ramp and crashing on top of other cars, a human loop-the-loop, and a man who has a cannonball shot at his abdomen at close range.

ActorAge thenAge now
Pete Smith

Pete Smith

Narrator (voice)

Birthday: September 4, 1892

57 January 12, 1979 (86)
Frank Richards

Frank Richards

Himself (as 'Cannonball' Richards)

Birthday: February 20, 1887

62 February 7, 1969 (81)