The Roaring Road
Cast & Crew
James Cruze
Wallace Reid
Ann Little
Theodore Roberts
Guy Oliver
Clarence Geldart
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Synopsis
"Toodles" Waldron, the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, which makes the famous Darco car, continually fights with Ward because Ward will not let him enter the Santa Monica Road Race or marry his daughter Dorothy. After a train carrying three new Darco cars wrecks, Toodles, with Dorothy's help, secretly salvages enough parts to build a roadster and wins the race. Ward then agrees to Toodles' demand to be the new general manager, and gives his consent to the marriage, but says that they must wait five years. Dorothy and Toodles decide to marry anyway. When Ward later wants to go after the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco record, he begs Toodles to attempt it, but he refuses, whereupon Ward arranges to take Dorothy East for a year, after stopping in San Francisco. Toodles, in jail for speeding, breaks out when he learns this, and races the train carrying Ward and Dorothy, in a Darco car, conveniently stripped and readied by Ward's mechanic. After Toodles beats the record, Ward consents to the marriage.
Director
James Cruze
Cast
Wallace Reid
Ann Little
Theodore Roberts
Guy Oliver
Clarence Geldart
Crew
Film Details
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The short stories from which this film was taken were published as a novel entitled The Roaring Road in 1920. The 1920 film Excuse My Dust was a sequel to this film.
