Sid Davis

Sid Davis

1916-04-01
90 (2006-10-16)
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sid Davis was an American writer, producer and director of educational short films, produced by his own company, Sid Davis Productions. He also worked as a stand in for actors Leif Erickson and John Wayne.

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sid Davis was an American writer, producer and director of educational short films, produced by his own company, Sid Davis Productions. He also worked as a stand in for actors Leif Erickson and John Wayne.

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Boys Beware 1961 (3.262)

This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.
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The Bottle and the Throttle 1961 (5.5)

The dangers of drinking and driving are illustrated to a teenager returning from a beach party, where after having "one too many beach beers" he runs over a young mother and her child. This black and white short is not to be confused with the later color film, with same title, from 1968 (some sources indicate 1965).
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Curious Alice 1971 (6.4)

The story “Alice in Wonderland” is used as a metaphor about the dangers of accidental drug use among children. Curious Alice's trip to Wonderland is not through the rabbit hole, but rather through her home, where the medicine and kitchen cabinets hold substances of lure but danger. After ingesting one of these substances, Alice, now in the Wonderland of her mind, has an altered sense of reality. In her new psychedelic world, she is exposed to more and more drugs, which she may take based on her impaired judgment from the initial drug use.
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Witchfinder General 1968 (6.488)

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
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Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? 1964 (6.2)

Things go terribly wrong for four youths, ejected from a London nightclub for rowdiness, after they decide to break into a Magic shop, where they tie up and terrorize the owner. They find to their cost that he deals in more than illusions...