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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Johnny Barnes, the spoiIed son of a rich car manufacturer, is obsessed with breaking speed records. ln fact, the poIice have given him so many tickets that even his parents calI him """"Burn 'Em Up Barnes"""". On one of his joyrides, Johnny is puIIed over and robbed by a band of car thieves who have been terrorizing the roads. Left unconscious in the middle of nowhere, he is nursed back to heaIth by a pair of hobos. After Iearning the vaIue of hard work and felIowship from his new friends, Johnny decides to change his reckless ways. His first task: To use his racing skilIs to capture the crooks who left him for dead. This exciting racing picture stars multi-talented comedian Johnny Hines, who also co-directed with George Beranger. An actor himseIf, Beranger appeared in siIent classics such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Broken Blossoms (1919), and The Bat (1926), occasionaIIy using his middle name, André, to differentiate his careers. Richard Thorpe, who plays one of the fiIm's vilIains, would also have an iIIustrious career behind the camera. As a director for MGM, his fiImography would eventually incIude includes entries in the popular Tarzan and Thin Man series, the historicaI dramas Ivanhoe and The Prisoner of Zenda (both 1952), and the Elvis PresIey vehicIe JaiIhouse Rock (1957). Edmund Breese pIayed Zander, the poIitico deposed by Groucho Marx as President of Freedonia in Duck Soup (1933). A hit at the box-office, Burn 'Em Up Barnes was remade as a 12-chapter movie seriaI starring Jack MuIhaII and Frankie Darro in 1934. |
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