The Roaring Road is a 1926 American silent action film directed by Paul Hurst and starring Kenneth MacDonald, Jane Thomas and William H. Strauss.[1] 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.[2]
| The Roaring Road | |
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| Directed by | Paul Hurst |
| Produced by | Bud Barsky |
| Starring | Kenneth MacDonald Jane Thomas William H. Strauss |
| Cinematography | Jack Cotner |
Production company | Bud Barsky Corporation |
| Distributed by | Bud Barsky Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Cast
edit- Kenneth MacDonald as Jimmie Miller
- Jane Thomas as Minnie Rosenburg
- William H. Strauss as Sol Rosenburg
- George Bunny as James Miller
- Jeanne Wray as Betty - Rosenburg's Stenographer
- Ben Corbett as Henchman
- Paul Hurst as Checking Board Tabulator
References
edit- ^ Conelly p.237
- ^ Bengtson, John (2021-10-23). "The Roaring Road – rare 'new' views of early Hollywood". Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more). Retrieved 2024-07-09.
Bibliography
edit- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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