The Racing Fool (R2) (1927, silent)

Description: Reel 2 of The Racing Fool (1927).

"The Racing Fool is a 1927 American silent action film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Ruth Dwyer and Ernest Hilliard."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Racing_Fool. Accessed 2023-04-11.

"Racing driver Jack Harlowe falls in love with Helen Drake, the daughter of his father's rival automobile manufacturer. Having promised his father to drive in the big race, Howes must refuse the girl's request that he drive for her father, but when he learns that another man (who has his eye on the girl) plans to drive for her father and throw the race, Howes receives parental permission to win the race for the rival."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018300/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl. Accessed 2023-06-01.

Notes on can: "Mogull Bros No 8044 Reed Howes Reel 2".

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Subjects: Automobiles; 1920s

Tags: female driver; romance; family business rivalry; upper class intrigue; intertitles; silent cinema; fiction film

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Harry Joe Brown, George W. Pyper, W. Ray Johnston

Credits: Director: Harry Joe Brown. Writer: George W. Pyper. Producers: Harry Joe Brown, W. Ray Johnston.

Distributor: Rayart Pictures

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1927

Geographical Location:

Genre/Form: fiction, feature, silent

Language: eng

Rights: No copyright registration shown under this title in CCE 1912-1939.

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reduction print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 308