William H. Strauss and George Bunny have bene in partnership manufacturing engines for decades. Business has been bad, so they need to win the big race. However, they quarrel. Each enters a car in the race. Little do they know that Bunny's son, Kenneth MacDonald, and Strauss's daughter, Jane Thomas, has gone into partnership to enter a car of their own. Underhanded rivals know none of them can win with MacDonald behind the wheel, so they take measures to ensure he is not in the race. Will MacDonald drive the car, win the race, get the contract and the girl, and restore their fathers' amity? Well, he's got a full fifty minutes.
It's an out-and-out Poverty Row special, produced on $15,000, shot in a week, and distributed via states rights. There's not an original thought in the script, but it's done with cheap good humor, and director Paul Hurst and cinematographer Jack Cotner have shot the racing scenes to bring some real excitement to them: the medium shots are swerving trucking shots that make the sharp turns and weaving of the race cars look dangerous. This is, as the time I write this, Cotner's sole known credit of any sort. Hurst directed a few cheap movies in this period, but with the coming of sound retreated, to acting. He appeared in more than three hundred shorts and features. He died in 1953 at the age of 64.
It's an out-and-out Poverty Row special, produced on $15,000, shot in a week, and distributed via states rights. There's not an original thought in the script, but it's done with cheap good humor, and director Paul Hurst and cinematographer Jack Cotner have shot the racing scenes to bring some real excitement to them: the medium shots are swerving trucking shots that make the sharp turns and weaving of the race cars look dangerous. This is, as the time I write this, Cotner's sole known credit of any sort. Hurst directed a few cheap movies in this period, but with the coming of sound retreated, to acting. He appeared in more than three hundred shorts and features. He died in 1953 at the age of 64.
