Details

Release year: 1932

Storyline

Race car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.

Top credits

Directors

Howard Hawks

Writers

Cast

James Cagney — Joe Greer
Joan Blondell — Anne Scott
Ann Dvorak — Lee Merrick
Eric Linden — Edward 'Eddie' Greer

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Did you know

• Famous racing car designer August Duesenberg designed a customized tow-bar for use in the racing stunt sequences that allowed cars to be released from tow and lose a wheel at high speed.

• Stock footage was removed temporarily from this film to be used in the remake, Indianapolis Speedway (1939). When it was placed back into this film's negative, some of the "Indianapolis Speedway" footage got mixed in with it, so that one now sees 1939 footage in a 1932 film, including shots of a late-1930s ambulance and automobiles, as well as racing announcers Wendell Niles, John Conte, and Reid Kilpatrick, who did not appear in the film as it originally was released.

• Frank McHugh plays the same character in the remake, Indianapolis Speedway (1939). The remake even uses footage of McHugh from the first film to save on production expenses.