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 And Then There Were Four is a 1950 Scare 'Em Straight driver's education film focusing on the tragic outcome of a car accident involving one of five people viewers are introduced to at the start of the film.Famously narrated by James Stewart (yes, that one), and sponosred by the General Petroleum Company and Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (today's ExxonMobil), the 26-minute short depicts Los Angelenos from different walks of life: a young salesman, the teen-aged son of a middle-class family, a working class family father, a wealthy doctor and a recently-widowed mother of two young children struggling to make ends meet.Each of these five drivers are guilty of various driving vices – speeding, reckless driving, failure to concentrate, habitual offending, failure to maintain their vehicles and so on – but four of them have luck on their side and make it home that night. The fifth ... well, that's what is revealed when a young police officer has to break the news to the survivors, and it is heartbreaking, to say the least. It's the mother, leaving her two children orphaned due to being no surviving family.Originally shown in movie theaters, And Then There Were Four was later distributed to schools for viewing in driver's education classes, where it was a mainstay through the mid-1960s. The movie received an award from the National Committee on Films for Safety in 1950.And Then There Were Four provides examples of these tropes:
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