Last Date - Dick York and Joan Taylor (1/2)

Remember those educational films you watched in high school? This might hold some memories for you. Last Date is a film that warns teenagers against the danger of fast, reckless driving.

Jeanne has two high school sweethearts, Nick and Larry. Nick is a reckless, dangerous driver; Larry takes driving safety seriously. Jeanne goes to a dance with Larry but while there, agrees to go for a short ride with Nick.

Throughout the film radio hipster DJ Dan Bacon's teenacide talk is mentioned and is also heard on the radio. Is anyone listening?

Dick York looks far too old for a high school student in this 1950 film. His role as "Darrin Stephens" on Bewitched was still fourteen years away.

Jeanne - Joan Taylor
Nick - Richard "Dick" York
Larry - Robert V. Stern
Kathy - Sally Hughes

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[AfsAnehAfairytale]

Interesting movie Michael. In my country we never had any educational movies, rather strange.

Thanks for this upload.

Rita

[hwy61media]

@AfsAnehAfairytale Hi Rita. I think these movie shorts started with preparing children for what to do in case of a nuclear attack. It was the cold war era and

paranoia ran high. The other films may have just been thought to be good ideas after those first ones.

[flipside1545]

wow..what year did this come out???

[hwy61media]

@flipside1545 1950

[kingofderelicts]

I went to school in the 90s and we still had the Pledge. We had Drive-By Shooting Drills rather than A-Bomb Drills, though.

[hwy61media]

@kingofderelicts I'm kind of glad that i missed those Drive-By shooting drills. That was a later era. I'm glad you had the Pledge of Allegiance.

[hwy61media]

@GJNCA LOL, you noticed too!

[hwy61media]

@classicphile I noticed on the Wikipedia page that York did a number on these educational films in the early days of his career. It's a shame that he suffered such a debilitating back injury while filming a movie, over came that then died of emphysema. He maintained a great outlook on life though. Thanks Marc!

[classicphile]

Dick York was in another educational film by the famed Coronet Films. Titled "Shy Guy" (its alread been posted on youtube and is also at archive (dot) org). Naturally Dick York played the "shy guy". Made in 1947 when York was only 19 years old. It was also narrated by Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame!

[hwy61media]

@davidperi Hi David. Just got part two up. Something went wrong the first time, lol. -Michael