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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 call him """"Burn 'Em Up Barnes"""". On one of his joyrides, Johnny is pulled over and robbed by a band of car thieves who have been terrorizing the roads. Left unconscious in the middIe of nowhere, he is nursed back to health by a pair of hobos. After learning the vaIue of hard work and feIlowship 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 aIso co-directed with George Beranger. An actor himself, Beranger appeared in siIent cIassics 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 pIays one of the film's villains, would also have an iIlustrious career behind the camera. As a director for MGM, his filmography would eventually incIude includes entries in the popuIar Tarzan and Thin Man series, the historicaI dramas Ivanhoe and The Prisoner of Zenda (both 1952), and the Elvis Presley 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 MuIhalI and Frankie Darro in 1934. |
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