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America for Me (Part I) (ca. 1950s)

Two young women take a Greyhound Bus tour across America. Includes a love story and a great song at the end - the whole bus breaks into song.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Production Company: Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
Sponsor: Greyhound
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: need keyword

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: mr_loophead - - November 3, 2007
Subject: ooh
yeah good nighttime viewing pleasure.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - July 30, 2003
Subject: AWESOME!
This jaw dropping film, made about the many wonderful reasons to travel Greyhound, is just about the corniest thing this side of Kansas. Centered around this very flimsy love story between a cowboy and a very uptight female traveller, this movie has it all. Overt sexism, double entendres, BAD process shots, Grehounds the only availible transport in the whole universe (they're the only thing on the road it seems) and much much more! It's perfectly obvious that the actors didn't step out of the soundstage for this one, and to top it all off, we get all the actors SINGING AT THE END! A screwball classic of the highest order, this is a MUST SEE on this site!!

Reviewer: Christine Hennig - - July 17, 2003
Subject: America for Me (Full Film)
A woman gives up her teaching career and her hope of earning a master's degree (for which she is writing a "theme" instead of a thesisI wonder if there are book reports involved, too?) in order to marry a guy from Texas that she meets on a Greyhound bus. Of course, said bus exists in a 50s Jam Handy universe, where every passenger is pleasant, white, and middle-class, and there are no stinky guys, but that only makes it slightly less appalling. More appalling is the fact that everyone the woman meets tries their level best to get her interested in the cowboy, even though it's obvious that she can't exchange two words with him without feeling waves of disgust. Even more appalling is the fact that this peer pressure sinks in after the guy leavesyou can gauge the woman's slow, tragic slide into total mind control by the way her fashion sense, which was no great shakes to begin with, deteriorates throughout the movie. It's enough of a shock to the eyes in the beginning to see the woman's baby-blue eyeglass frames, which are a size usually associated with clowns and novelty stores, and shocking red lipstick that was applied with a trowel, but by the end of the film she is reduced to donning an artificial rose that is the size of the average head of cauliflower, and wearing a black dress with huge red polka-dots, a red hat that matches her lipstick, and little white gloves. And I don't even have any fashion sense, so it must be bad if I mention it! This is not the most appalling thing about the movie, though. The most appalling thing is after the woman throws her future away for the sake of Tex the Drifter, the bus driver, and then the entire bus, breaks into song. Don't say I didn't warn you about this one.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: *****. Weirdness: ****. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: *****.