Too Much Speed
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Frank Urson
Director
Wallace Reid
Dusty Rhoades
Agnes Ayres
Virginia MacMurran
Theodore Roberts
Pat MacMurran
Jack Richardson
Tyler Hellis
Lucien Littlefield
Jimmy Rodman
Film Details
Release Date
Jul
10,
1921
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Too Much Speed," by Byron Morgan in Saturday Evening Post (28 May 1921).
Synopsis
Dusty Rhoades, who is engaged to Virginia, daughter of Pat MacMurran, manufacturer of Pakro automobiles, retires from racing to please his future father-in-law. Hellis, of the Ronado Car Co., who is trying to secure an order from a South American dealer, ditches Dusty in a road challenge, and MacMurran cancels the wedding; but Dusty elopes with Virginia in a racing car. Pursued by her father, they are both arrested for speeding, and Dusty spends 2 days in jail. Later, he purchases a Pakro car and enters the automobile race. Dusty and his mechanic, Jimmy Rodman, defeat the Ronado entry and win the South American contract, and Dusty and Virginia are reconciled to MacMurran.
Director
Frank Urson
Director
Cast
Wallace Reid
Dusty Rhoades
Agnes Ayres
Virginia MacMurran
Theodore Roberts
Pat MacMurran
Jack Richardson
Tyler Hellis
Lucien Littlefield
Jimmy Rodman
Guy Oliver
"Howdy" Zeeker
Henry Johnson
Billy Dawson
Jack Herbert
Hawks
Film Details
Release Date
Jul
10,
1921
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Too Much Speed," by Byron Morgan in Saturday Evening Post (28 May 1921).
