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Clarence Wilson
- Toastmaster
- (as Clarence H. Wilson)
June Brewster
- Girl at Nightclub
- (uncredited)
George Chandler
- Pullman Ticket Agent
- (uncredited)
William B. Davidson
- Kendricks
- (uncredited)
Phyllis Fraser
- Nightclub Girl
- (uncredited)
Duke Green
- Morrison's Partner
- (uncredited)
Ben Hall
- News Office Boy
- (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
- Nightclub Dancer
- (uncredited)
Jerry Mandy
- Six-Day-Bike-Race Rider
- (uncredited)
Frank Mills
- Coffee Counter Attendant
- (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
- Alumnus
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIvan Linow who plays Sailor Fritz Muller, was a real professional wrestler - turned film actor.
- GoofsAt the six-day bike race, Irene stops at the refreshment stand before going to find Sandy. She gets a box of sandwiches and a large cardboard cup of coffee. (We actually see the coffee going into the cup.) When she finds Sandy, however, the coffee has been transubstantiated into soup - according to Irene, anyhow.
- Quotes
'Shifty' Morrison: Look what you've done to my biscuit grabber!
- SoundtracksCome Stand Up Men
(uncredited)
(Dartmouth Fight Song)
Written by Winsor Wilkinson and Moses Ewing
Played by a band at the Dartmouth-Harvard football game
Sung by men at the banquet
Featured review
If Howard Hawks Had No Talent
It is, after all, a very Hawksian landscape -- men's men, sports, best friends vying for the same woman, a vague homoeroticism beneath. (The film historian Richard Barrios has suggested it's a heavily disguised gay fantasy, with Marian Marsh there just for convention's sake.) But Dudley Murphy, with David Selznick's blessing, goes in for terrible artsy cinematic transitions, needlessly elaborate camera-work, and an odd obsession with Harlemites (a pseudo-Cotton Club sequence that makes for highly uncomfortable viewing today). You do get the appeal of the young Joel McCrea, one of the most unassuming and likable of leading men, and there are nice, seemingly improvised bits by Robert Benchley, doing sportscaster variations on his famed "Treasurer's Report" routine. Walter Catlett pitches in, too, playing a sort of sub-Don King with his well-practiced brand of cynicism and breathless delivery. But the pacing's sluggish for an under-70-minute programmer, and the happy ending's awfully forced: Aside from the inexplicably quashed romantic rivalry, wouldn't a sequel show the mob gunning down McCrea for not throwing the fight?
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- marcslope
- Jun 13, 2005
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Free, White and Twenty-One
- Filming locations
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway - 4790 W. 16th Street, Speedway, Indiana, USA(auto racing scenes - archive footage)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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