Burning Up (1930)

Directed by

A. Edward Sutherland

Genre

action film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A racing driver competes in dangerous races and falls for a fellow driver's daughter. The film features motorcycle stunts and early sound technology.

fast-pacedenergeticnostalgicdaringromanticold-fashionedexciting

What happens

Burning Up is a 1930 American Pre-Code action film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and written by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt. The film stars Richard Arlen as a racing driver and Mary Brian as his love interest, the daughter of a fellow driver. An early talkie, the film also features motorcycle stunts, and also stars Francis McDonald, Sam Hardy, Charles Sellon, and Tully Marshall. The film was released on February 1, 1930, by Paramount Pictures. The film was made in an effort by Paramount's Jesse L. Lasky to emulate the success of earlier racing films made by the late Wallace Reid, "emulating Wally's films almost exactly", and with director Allen Sigler having "filmed the racing scenes exactly as Wally's had been done". One review described it as "the old racing-car scenario brought up to date with sound and talk", but a later assessment was that despite the fact that Allen G. Siegler had "filmed the racing scenes exactly as Wally's had been done", Arlen as the star "could not bring Wally's imagery to screen". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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