Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
Acting
Young Jimmy Stewart already doing that nervous charm thing
Production
Actual Indy 500 footage smuggled into a B-picture
Director
Edwin L. Marin
James Stewart
Terry Martin
Wendy Barrie
Jane Mitchell
Una Merkel
Josephine 'Jo' Sanderson
Weldon Heyburn
Frank Lawson
Ted Healy
Clarence Maxmillian 'Gadget' Haggerty
Ralph Morgan
Mr. Dean
Patricia Wilder
Fanny Lane, a Secretary
Don Brodie
Track Official Telling Terry He Qualified
George Chandler
'Shorty', Bystander at Barn Dance
Jack Rube Clifford
Master of Ceremonies
Bess Flowers
Extra at Company Dance
June Gittelson
Woman at Barn Dance
Isabelle Keith
Nurse
Walter Kingsford
Uncle Edward Emery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was James Stewart's first leading role after years of bit parts—MGM was testing if America's future everyman could carry a picture.
Pre-code films could show working-class heroes with sex lives and professional ambition; this romance triangle would've been neutered just two years later under the Hays Code.
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