a5c7b9f00b Joe is the three time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through College. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a racing career. Joe tries to teach Eddie the trade, but they separate when Eddie will not drop bad girl Frankie. When Joe causes the death of a driver at the next race, he quits racing and wanders around. Joe winds up at Indianapolis where Eddie is driving the Martin Special. ***SPOILERS**** Coming back home after another of his many big victories on the race track cigar chomping race car driver Joe Greer, Pat O&#39;Brien, is shocked to find out that his kid brother Eddie, John Payne, who&#39;s collage tuition he&#39;s been paying for the last five years has gotten race car fever in his blood. Like big brother Joe Eddie want&#39;s to a racer and make it big on the California race car circuit. Just when Joe is about to give into his kid brother&#39;s future plans he&#39;s double shocked to find out that Eddie is romantically involved with the wild and hota branding iron Frankie Merrick played by the &quot;Oomp Girl&quot; Ann Sheridan. It was Frankie who Joe held responsible for the car crash death of his good friend Eddie Musco who instead of keeping his eyes on the road kept his eyes on her having his car crash and go up in flames, together with Eddie, at the 1935 Indianapolis 500 car race.<br/><br/>As things turn out Eddie becomes the big banana in California racing when he&#39;s soon nominate to race against Joe in the California Championship Racing Series to prove to the world of car racing who of the two is #1 in the sport. It&#39;s in the final lap that Joe&#39;s partner who&#39;s running interference for him &quot;Spud&quot; Connor, Frank McHugh, ends up dead when he loses control of his car and crashes into the stands. In a state of total shock Joe loses his willwellnerve to go on in life and slowly becomes a listless bum until he gets a second chance to redeem himself. That&#39;s when he drifts into Indianapolis on the weekend of the big race, Indianapolis 500, end ends up due to circumstances beyond his control competing in it.<br/><br/>***SPOILERS*** Great racing scenes mostly taken from the 1932 film that it was a remake of &quot;The Crowd Roars&quot; with at first a mistaken, by myself, the lean and fit John Payne looking like the string-bean like and undernourished James Stewart. Just when it looked hopeless for Joe to win with one of his tires about to blow itself out his nerve suddenly comes back, together with his cigar,he hits the finish line of the race first winning it. It was in fact Eddie that Joe replaced halfway in the race when he ended up getting injured in a pit stop making him unable to continue and finish the race. Joe in fact beat Eddie again in the end of the movie by his taxi driver, under Joe&#39;s urging, beating Eddie&#39;s ambulance driver to the hospital, risking everyone&#39;s lives, to be treated for their injuries. The movie that this was based on, THE CROWD ROARS, starred Jimmy Cagney and was simply a better film in every way. Thanks to a very astute reviewer (Arthur Hauser), the footage of the races is identical in the second movie and many other scenes were just lifted from the original. So, apart from the remake not being original, why else did I dislike this film? I think the biggest reason was Pat O&#39;Brien&#39;s character. While he was a controlling jerk in the original, in this case he also seems very shrill and totally unlikable. So here we have a retread movie with an unlikable star–what is left? Well, not much. All you really have is a time-passer. Period.<br/><br/>It&#39;s really a shame. The actors in the movie were better than the material and the complete rip-off of the footage from the original makes this a cynical attempt by Warner Brothers to expend little money or effort to squeeze a few more bucks out of an ancient story.
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