a5c7b9f00b A brash young midget car race driver lives in the shadow of his famous father, a drunken womanizer, who was killed in an accident years earlier.
Billy Coy comes to Carrell. His late father's mechanic Red hires Billy as a mechanic. Soon, Billy gets a job as a driver.
Mickey Rooney is a "fresh kid" and ace racecar driver who's involved in the tragic death of a fellow driver on the track; he recovers his courage to race in the Indianapolis 500, the same race that claimed the life of his father years before. Low-budget release from United Artists integrates footage of real drivers and fans in the stands with studio shots of Rooney in the pit and on the track. The visual result isn't as haphazard as it might have been, likely due to cinematographer Ernest Laszlo's finesse, although the close-ups of Mickey driving--wearing tight goggles and making exaggerated faces--are silly, as are the segues to mama Spring Byington over-emoting on the sidelines. Screenwriter Robert Smith is working on the thin side, never explaining why nobody attempted to save an injured driver on fire or why most of Rooney's colleagues are dying to take a poke at him, but he does well building this narrative as a character portrait. Rooney is an eager kid, not necessarily a hot-dogger, who just wants to race. There isn't much of the expected boy-girl stuff (the ignored affections of a female mechanic are thankfully kept to a minimum), but the fisticuffs action is brought on a bit heavily, lapsing into cartoony territory. ** from ****
This story of the race car industry is interesting and invariably there is that always exciting end of film racing scene.<br/><br/>Mickey Rooney is perfect to play the lead role of a jockey, who seems to be going in the way of his late father. When Rooney is unable to save his friend during a race, it comes out that his dad was quite a boozer and a womanizer as well.<br/><br/>The film gave Spring Byington, who plays Rooney's mother, the opportunity to engage in some dramatic acting. Most of Byington's career had her in almost comic roles or as a society matron. That changes all here.<br/><br/>Interesting that 10 years after "Gone With the Wind," Thomas Mitchell and Hattie McDaniel again team for this film. Though McDaniel is in one scene, they are not in that one together.<br/><br/>The film is a definite ode to race car drivers with their trials and tribulations.
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