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"The Trouble With Women" tries to address sexism in the workplace with terrible overacting and dated dialogue. Listen carefully to the voice of the actor who plays the boss. I could swear that's Thurl Ravenscroft who later supplied the voice of Tony the Tiger for Frosted Flakes and became a singing bust in Disney's Haunted Mansion.

"When You Grow Up" and "Purely Coincidental" both revel in bad music. The first is so mellow that it would put the children of today asleep. The later zaps us with bursts of electrified panic to indicated that food preparing machinery has not been properly sanitized.

The best segment has to be "Shake Hands With Danger". Professional stuntmen play out a series of on the job mishaps that are sometimes unintentionally funny. Look for Cliff from the International House of Pancakes commercials. He was going by the name Cliff back then too. This time he's having his truck flipped over instead of his pancakes. Ultimately, it's the "Shake Hands With Danger" theme song that steals the show here...and I'm still singing it.

Good campy stuff. Especially 70's and 80's.
This is the first DVD in this series that I have watched, and I was blown away.


My two favorites have to be "Shake Hands with Danger" a Caterpillar-financed safety film featuring countless construction mishaps set to a country western soundtrack, and "Purely Coincidental" featuring some of the most earnest over-acting you'll ever see in an educational film.


Also not to be missed is "All Together" a 1970 Lou Rawls narrated recruitment film trying to get more African Americans into the Navy. Right on!