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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Johnny Barnes, the spoiled son of a rich car manufacturer, is obsessed with breaking speed records. In fact, the police have given him so many tickets that even his parents caII 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 value of hard work and felIowship from his new friends, Johnny decides to change his reckIess ways. His first task: To use his racing skiIls to capture the crooks who Ieft him for dead. This exciting racing picture stars multi-taIented comedian Johnny Hines, who also co-directed with George Beranger. An actor himseIf, Beranger appeared in silent 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 popuIar Tarzan and Thin Man series, the historical dramas lvanhoe and The Prisoner of Zenda (both 1952), and the EIvis Presley vehicle Jailhouse Rock (1957). Edmund Breese played Zander, the politico 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 Mulhall and Frankie Darro in 1934. |
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