Call Sheet Confidential · Ep 4 · Apr 25, 2026 · 36 min
Comic Art, Sammie Davis Jr., & Hell's Highway with Tommy Gibbons
Knoxville legend Tommy Gibbons takes us from a 1973 comic book convention with a Kodak XL Super 8 to a lifetime of stories from the sordid land of film and TV.
Tommy's stories run from Super 8 experiments with pixelation and homemade squibs to surviving a near-fatal timber rattlesnake bite.
In this episode
- The making of the cult documentary Hell's Highway, and the 1950s drivers' ed films behind it
- Interviewing Frank Capra at the Tennessee Theatre, and side stories involving Sammy Davis Jr.
- Animals on set, including a timber wolf with a mayonnaise jar stuck on its snout
- Gear from the Kodak XL Super 8 and the Eclair 16mm to the 3/4-inch era
- The Kino Lorber restoration and re-premiere of Hell's Highway
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