The Roaring Road (1919 film)
1919 film by James Cruze, Frank John Urson
- April 27, 1919 (1919-04-27)
Running time
(4,309 feet)
The Roaring Road is a 1919 American silent action romance film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is taken from the short stories by Byron Morgan; Junkpile Sweepstakes, Undertaker's Handicap, and Roaring Road.
This film was so successful that it spawned a sequel, Excuse My Dust, from stories by the same author. This film is available on video and DVD from online sources.[1][2][3]
Plot
As described in a film magazine,[4] "Toodles" Walden (Reid), an automobile salesman who works for a sporty old automobile distributor J. D. Ward (Roberts), has racing ambitions and is in love with Ward's daughter Dorothy (Little). The old man does not propose to give her up for five years and overreaches in an attempt to stimulate the young man with feigned complaints. They part company, but Ward is in despair when three racing machines are damaged in a train wreck.
Toodles buys the wreckage and assembles one complete car with the aid of his mechanic. With this car Toodles wins an important race, then holds up Ward for an increase in pay. There are just a few days left for a record to be broken between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and after Toodles is arrested for speeding, Ward has him released as part of his plot to break this record. Ward kidnaps his own daughter, and Toodles comes to the rescue and breaks the record, and also wins Dorothy.
Cast
- Wallace Reid - Walter Thomas "Toodles" Waldron
- Ann Little - Dorothy Ward, the cub
- Theodore Roberts - J. D. Ward, the bear
- Guy Oliver - Tom Darby
- Clarence Geldart - Fred Wheeler
Larry Steers and Teddy Tetzlaff appear uncredited.
See also
- The House That Shadows Built (1931 promotional film by Paramount)
- Wallace Reid filmography
References
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Roaring Road at silentera.com
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Roaring Road
- ^ Harrison, Louis Reeves (April 26, 1919). "Reviews and Advertising Aids: The Roaring Road". Moving Picture World. 40 (4). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company: 531. Retrieved 2014-08-28.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Roaring Road.
- The Roaring Road at IMDb
- The Roaring Road is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- The Roaring Road; allmovie.com
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Films directed by James Cruze
- From Wash to Washington (1914)
- Too Many Millions (1918)
- The Dub (1919)
- Alias Mike Moran (1919)
- The Roaring Road (1919)
- You're Fired (1919)
- The Love Burglar (1919)
- The Valley of the Giants (1919)
- The Lottery Man (1919)
- Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919)
- An Adventure in Hearts (1919)
- Terror Island (1920)
- Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1920)
- The Sins of St. Anthony (1920)
- What Happened to Jones (1920)
- Food for Scandal (1920)
- A Full House (1920)
- Always Audacious (1920)
- The Charm School (1921)
- The Dollar-a-Year Man (1921)
- Gasoline Gus (1921)
- Crazy to Marry (1921)
- One Glorious Day (1922)
- Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922)
- The Fast Freight (1922)
- The Dictator (1922)
- The Old Homestead (1922)
- Thirty Days (1922)
- The Covered Wagon (1923)
- Hollywood (1923)
- Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
- To the Ladies (1923)
- Leap Year (1924) filmed 1921
- The Fighting Coward (1924)
- The Enemy Sex (1924)
- Merton of the Movies (1924)
- The City That Never Sleeps (1924)
- The Garden of Weeds (1924)
- The Goose Hangs High (1925)
- Waking Up the Town (1925)
- Welcome Home (1925)
- Beggar on Horseback (1925)
- Marry Me (1925)
- The Pony Express (1925)
- Mannequin (1926)
- Old Ironsides (1926)
- The Waiter from the Ritz (1926) never completed or released
- We're All Gamblers (1927)
- The City Gone Wild (1927)
- On to Reno (1928)
- The Mating Call (1928)
- The Red Mark (1928)
- Excess Baggage (1928)
- The Duke Steps Out (1929)
- A Man's Man (1929)
- The Great Gabbo (1929)
- Once a Gentleman (1930)
- She Got What She Wanted (1930)
- Salvation Nell (1931)
- Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
- If I Had a Million (segment "Death Cell", 1932)
- Racetrack (1933)
- Sailor Be Good (1933)
- I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
- Mr. Skitch (1933)
- David Harum (1934)
- Their Big Moment (1934)
- Helldorado (1934)
- Two-Fisted (1935)
- Sutter's Gold (1936)
- The Wrong Road (1937)
- Prison Nurse (1938)
- Gangs of New York (1938)
- Come On, Leathernecks! (1938)
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