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Made-for-TV film based on the life of Justin Yoder. Driven: 2001 Action Open wheel Sylvester Stallone as a former Champ Car star. The Fast and the Furious: 2001 Action Street racing: Brian O'Conner, an LAPD officer, goes undercover in the street racing world to investigate a group of unknown truck hijackers. This film is the first in the Fast ...
Top Speed is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. It was based on a 1929 stage musical of the same name by Harry Ruby, Guy Bolton and Bert Kalmar. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting, Laura Lee, and Frank McHugh. [1]
Fox Film [288] The Sea Bat: Wesley Ruggles: Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford, Nils Asther: Melodrama: MGM [289] The Sea God: George Abbott: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray: Adventure: Paramount-Publix [290] Sea Legs: Victor Heerman: Jack Oakie, Lillian Roth: Comedy: Paramount-Publix [291] The Sea Wolf: Alfred Santell: Milton Sills, Raymond Hackett ...
Red Dirt Rising is a 2011 film starring Brad Yoder, Burgess Jenkins and Brett Rice based on the book Red Dirt Tracks: The Forgotten Heroes of Early Stockcar Racing by Gail Cauble Gurley telling the true story of race car driver Jimmie Lewallen. The film dramatizes the birth of NASCAR in the 1930s and 1940s.
Many race films were produced by white-owned film companies outside the Hollywood-centered American film industry, such as Million Dollar Productions in the 1930s and Toddy Pictures in the 1940s. One of the earliest surviving examples of a black cast film aimed at a black audience is A Fool and His Money (1912) , directed by French emigree ...
Speed is a 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer action film directed by Edwin L. Marin.It starred James Stewart, in his first starring role, and Wendy Barrie.Although only a low-budget "B" movie, the film was notable for its realistic cinematography by Lester White, incorporating scenes from the Indianapolis 500 race and on-location shooting at the Muroc dry lake bed, used for high-speed racing by "hot ...
Anderson entered show business as a teenager on the vaudeville circuit. In the early 1930s, he transitioned into films and radio. In 1937, he began his role of Rochester van Jones, usually known simply as Rochester, the valet of Jack Benny on the NBC radio show The Jack Benny Program. Anderson became the first African American to have a regular ...
Racing Lady is a 1937 American drama film produced by RKO Radio Pictures, which premiered in New York City on January 12, 1937, and was released nationally on January 29.. Directed by Wallace Fox, the screenplay was written by Dorothy Yost, Thomas Lennon, and Cortland Fitzsimmons, based on a story by Damon Runyon, which had been further expanded by J. Robert Bren and Norman Hous