[3] In November 1949, Linda Joyce Glucoft, a six-year-old girl in Los Angeles, California, was molested and murdered by a man named Fred Stroble.
[citation needed] Davis stated that the tragedy particularly disturbed him because his daughter Jill, then six years old herself, did not seem to pay attention to his warnings about strangers.
Live and Learn (1951), a fairly famous Davis film, features Jill cutting out paper dolls in her room.
Other children in the film are equally unlucky—falling off cliffs, being run over by cars, or losing vision in one eye from flying shards of glass.
Films like Boys Beware reinforced a culture of homophobia which is only recently being chipped away by voices of intelligence and common sense.
[citation needed] The film follows a teenage girl through her use of "reds", "pep pills", and 7-Up, to her first puff of marijuana, to her addiction to heroin, to her fate as a prostitute arrested on her twentieth birthday, "lost to society".
"[citation needed] In 1964 his company Sid Davis Productions distributed his film Too Tough to Care, aimed at undermining teenage resistance to anti-smoking education.
The film used satire and humor, in a short story with no narration, to illustrate the misleading claims of cigarette advertising – an unconventional approach for its genre.
His films typically feature monotonous narration suffused with what Mental Hygiene author Ken Smith calls a "sledgehammer morality.
Coronet, Centron Corporation, and Britannica typically had teams of scholars with PhDs in sociology who guided development of their films.
Later he hired cinematographers to lens the films as well as office workers to distribute them and spent his time enjoying his hobby of mountain climbing.
Davis became involved in the real estate market in Los Angeles during the 1950s, at a time when it was booming due to development resulting from the influx of people to work in the defense industry.
His Film, The ABC of Walking Wisely, and a short, Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen, are available in digital form, with humorous commentary, from Rifftrax, an entertainment group made of performers previously with the similar Mystery Science Theater 3000.