The Crowd Roars

The Crowd Roars (1932)

Ablaze with excitement-heart pounding romance women never forget!

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.

Date of release
1932-04-16
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama, Action
Director
Howard Hawks

Casting

Interesting facts

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.

Production

The Crowd Roars is loosely based on the play The Barker: A Play of Carnival Life by Kenyon Nicholson. Hawks developed the script with Seton Miller for their eighth and final collaboration and the script was by Miller, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Niven Busch. Blondell and Dvorak initially were cast in each other's roles but swapped after a few days of shooting.

Certain scenes were filmed at the now defunct Nutley Velodrome racetrack in Nutley, New Jersey, with Harry Hartz standing in for James Cagney. In original prints of the film, the big racing scene at the end was printed on tinted "Inferno" stock. A French-language version, La foule hurle, starring Jean Gabin, was produced in 1932. Warner Bros. remade The Crowd Roars in 1939 as Indianapolis Speedway.

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