The Roaring Road (1926 film)

The Roaring Road
Directed byPaul Hurst
Produced byBud Barsky
StarringKenneth MacDonald
Jane Thomas
William H. Strauss
CinematographyJack Cotner
Production
company
Bud Barsky Corporation
Distributed byBud Barsky Corporation
Release date
  • May 1, 1926 (1926-05-01)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Roaring Road is a 1926 American silent action film directed by Paul Hurst and starring Kenneth MacDonald, Jane Thomas and William H. Strauss.[1] Location shooting took place around Los Angeles including the Legion Ascot Speedway. A young racing driver pioneers a new car and enters it into a hundred-mile race. A restored version of the film premiered on Turner Classic Movies in 2021, with the print provided by Mark Heller’s Streamline Cinema and funded by The Academy Film Archive.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Conelly p.237
  2. ^ Bengtson, John (2021-10-23). "The Roaring Road – rare 'new' views of early Hollywood". Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more). Retrieved 2024-07-09.

Bibliography

  • Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.


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