Indianapolis Speedway
This 1939 drama, a reworking of the 1932 James Cagney film "The Crowd Roars", stars Pat O'Brien as a champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother (John Payne) wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Lloyd Bacon
Casts & Crew
Pat O’Brien
Ann Sheridan
John Payne
Frank McHugh
Gale Page
Grace Stafford
Granville Bates
John Ridgely
Regis Toomey
John Harron
William B. Davidson
Edward McWade
Irving Bacon
Tommy Bupp
Charles Halton
Robert Middlemass
Billy Arnold
Sidney Bracey
Nat Carr
Glen Cavender
Eddy Chandler
John Conte
Hal Craig
Ralph Dunn
Sol Gorss
William Gould
Creighton Hale
Sam Hayes
Stuart Holmes
Reid Kilpatrick
Monroe Lee
Bert Moorhouse
Evelyn Mulhall
Wendell Niles
Patsy O'Byrne
Ted Oliver
Eddie Parker
Paul Phillips
Georges Renavent
John J. Richardson
Jeffrey Sayre
Garland Smith
Elliott Sullivan
Russell Wade
Billy Wayne
Tom Wilson
Claude Wisberg
Jack Wise
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