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The Crowd Roars is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Howard Hawks starring James Cagney and featuring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden, Guy Kibbee, and Frank McHugh. A film of the same name was made in 1938 with a different story, starring Robert Taylor . The driver in the film's auto racing sequences was Harry Hartz, a ...
Crowd Roars, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Roaring For Blood Warner Bros. pace opening the James Cagney car-racing drama, the star with his sidekick Spud (Frank McHugh) on a train, headed to his hometown after winning the Indianapolis 500, pausing for girlfriend Lee (Ann Dvorak) to tell us the moral score, in Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars, 1932.
- Howard Hawks
- James Cagney
The Crowd Roars: Directed by Richard Thorpe. With Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan. A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
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- Action, Drama, Romance
- Richard Thorpe
- 1938-08-05
The Crowd Roars was produced in April and May of 1938. Because Richard Thorpe was already working on Three Loves Has Nancy (1938), Victor Fleming stepped in to film retakes in July; the film was released theatrically a few weeks later, in early August.
- Richard Thorpe, Victor Fleming, Dolph Zimmer
- Robert Taylor
The Crowd Roars is made to make us wait for two things: for Cagney to wise up and realize that he has to let his brother live his own life and the violent death of one of the side characters. I won’t tell you which side character it is, but there are so many red flags present beforehand that it almost becomes humorous.
Review by Matthew Noble ★★★. Hawks-athon #8/39. The racing parts are extremely well-filmed, and continue to generate shock and awe almost ninety years later. Unfortunately those sequences only make up about 20% of the movie. The remaining 80% mostly consists of meandering melodrama, with Scarface 's Ann Dvorak acting like a doormat and ...
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The Crowd Roars is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Howard Hawks starring James Cagney and featuring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden, Guy Kibbee, and Frank McHugh. A film of the same name was made in 1938 with a different story line, starring Robert Taylor.
