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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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.

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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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