Too Late to be Sorry

Made for the Forest Service by the National Film Unit this instructional film demonstrates essential firearms safety. Like later cautionary tales (eg. cult bush safety film Such a Stupid Way to Die) the film dramatises what can happen when things go wrong, before a hunter imparts "the five basic safety rules" (with obligatory ciggie hanging from lower lip). The rendering of the lesson might be hokey (compared to the explicit traffic safety ads of the '90s and '00s) but the message is deadly serious, as ongoing hunting tragedy headlines attest.

Hey watch what you’re doing ya bloody fool! Are ya blind or some damn thing? What’s the matter with you!

– A hunter responds to being shot at

Key Cast & Crew

Peter Hutt

Director, Writer, Editor, Narrator

Geoffrey Scott

Producer

Oxley Hughan

Producer

Kit Rollings

Sound

Graham Pomfret-Brown

Sound

John Blick

Camera