The Roaring Road (1926)
- Original title
- Roaring Road
- Directed by
- Paul Hurst
- Genre
- thriller
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young racing driver develops a new kind of car and enters it in a major hundred-mile race. The film follows his efforts to succeed against other competitors at the speedway.
silent-erafast-pacedexcitinglightheartedenergeticcompetitivecrowd-pleasingnostalgic
What happens
The Roaring Road is a 1926 American silent action film directed by Paul Hurst and starring Kenneth MacDonald, Jane Thomas and William H. Strauss. Location shooting took place around Los Angeles including the Legion Ascot Speedway. A young racing driver pioneers a new car and enters it into a hundred-mile race. A restored version of the film premiered on Turner Classic Movies in 2021, with the print provided by Mark Heller’s Streamline Cinema and funded by The Academy Film Archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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