College football + mobsters + 226 minutes of cliffhangers = chaos cinema.
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
Stunts
Red Grange doing his own football stunts because he IS Red Grange.
Production
Taxi company headquarters as criminal lair—budget ingenuity at its finest.
Director
B. Reeves Eason
Harold 'Red' Grange
'Red' Grange
Dorothy Gulliver
Barbara Courtland
Tom Dugan
Jerry
Gwen Lee
Irene Courtland
Francis X. Bushman
'Buddy' Courtland
Theodore Lorch
The Crippled Stranger
Walter Miller
George Elton
Edward Hearn
Clay College Coach Harlow
Ernie Adams
Brady
Tom London
Mullins
Frank Brownlee
Tom
Edward Peil Sr.
Coach of Baxter Team
Stepin Fetchit
Baxter College Locker Room Attendant
Dick Dickinson
Mogul Taxi Clerk - Bribed Foorball Player Byrns
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Red Grange was the NFL's first superstar, nicknamed 'The Galloping Ghost' for his University of Illinois career. This serial cashed in on his fame during his brief 1925-1934 pro run.
Directors B. Reeves Eason and Armand Schaefer were Republic Pictures' cliffhanger specialists—Eason later staged the chariot race in 1959's Ben-Hur.
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