Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003)
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| Theatrical Performance | ||
| Domestic Box Office | $1,225 | Details |
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Synopsis
Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films is a morbidly curious exploration of the near mythical driver education films shown to American schoolchildren in the 1960s and ‘70s. Produced between 1959 and 1979 in Mansfield, Ohio, films such as Signal 30 (1959) encouraged safety by force-feeding high school kids color footage of careless driving’s dark consequences: blood-stained wreckage, injured bodies, fresh corpses. In the 1970s and ’80s, these traumatic films disappeared from the American classroom and assumed an almost mythical status.
Metrics
| Opening Weekend: | $1,225 (100.0% of total gross) |
| Legs: | 1.00 (domestic box office/biggest weekend) |
| Domestic Share: | 100.0% (domestic box office/worldwide) |
| Theater counts: | 1 opening theaters/1 max. theaters, 1.0 weeks average run per theater |
| Infl. Adj. Dom. BO | $2,428 |
Movie Details
| Domestic Releases: | June 27th, 2003 (Limited) August 5th, 2026 (Limited) by Kino Lorber |
| MPA Rating: | Not Rated |
| Running Time: | 92 minutes |
| Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Factual |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Theaters | Per Theater | Total Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2003 | 95 | $1,225 | 1 | $1,225 | $1,225 | 1 |
Production and Technical Credits
| Bret Wood | Director | |
| Bret Wood | Producer | |
| Felicia Feaster | Producer | |
| Tommy Gibbons | Producer |
Cast and crew with above-the-line roles are marked in bold. The line marks the division between above-the-line and below-the-line roles.
Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.
Synopsis
Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films is a morbidly curious exploration of the near mythical driver education films shown to American schoolchildren in the 1960s and ‘70s. Produced between 1959 and 1979 in Mansfield, Ohio, films such as Signal 30 (1959) encouraged safety by force-feeding high school kids color footage of careless driving’s dark consequences: blood-stained wreckage, injured bodies, fresh corpses. In the 1970s and ’80s, these traumatic films disappeared from the American classroom and assumed an almost mythical status.
Metrics
| Opening Weekend: | $1,225 (100.0% of total gross) |
| Legs: | 1.00 (domestic box office/biggest weekend) |
| Domestic Share: | 100.0% (domestic box office/worldwide) |
| Theater counts: | 1 opening theaters/1 max. theaters, 1.0 weeks average run per theater |
| Infl. Adj. Dom. BO | $2,428 |
Movie Details
| Domestic Releases: | June 27th, 2003 (Limited) August 5th, 2026 (Limited) by Kino Lorber |
| MPA Rating: | Not Rated |
| Running Time: | 92 minutes |
| Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Factual |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Theaters | Per Theater | Total Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2003 | 95 | $1,225 | 1 | $1,225 | $1,225 | 1 |
Production and Technical Credits
| Bret Wood | Director | |
| Bret Wood | Producer | |
| Felicia Feaster | Producer | |
| Tommy Gibbons | Producer |
Cast and crew with above-the-line roles are marked in bold. The line marks the division between above-the-line and below-the-line roles.
Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.