California Straight Ahead

California Straight Ahead (1937)

HE ALWAYS RACED FAST! So Why Slow Up When It Comes To Love!

A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.

Date of release
1937-04-16
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Romance
Director
Arthur Lubin

Casting

Interesting facts

California Straight Ahead! is a 1937 American action film about truck drivers starring John Wayne and directed by Arthur Lubin for Universal Pictures. The action movie features a memorable cross-country race between a caravan of trucks and a special train.

Production

The film was known as Short Haul. John Wayne was meant to have made a film Maid of Orleans or Adventure's End but that was delayed due to the maritime strike. Universal then put him in Short Haul which was to have begun filming in November 1936. However filming on that was delayed due to a teamsters strike. It was to have been shot in San Francisco but that city had labor troubles so the script was rewritten so it could be shot in Los Angeles.

The movie was the first in a series of films directed by Arthur Lubin starring John Wayne.

Lubin recalled, "We had six days to shoot. There was no time schedule, as there is today, where if you go late at night or start early in the morning, you have to pay more. In those days, you could shoot twenty-four hours a day."

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