A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star..
Is this worth watching today? Only if you have twenty minutes to kill and a major crush on Louise Brooks. If you like fast-talking 1930s comedies where nobody breathes between sentences, you might dig it. If you want a plot that makes sense, stay away. It’s basically a short film based on a comic strip. Windy Riley i...
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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
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"Is this worth watching today? Only if you have twenty minutes to kill and a major crush on Louise Brooks. If you like fast-talking 1930s comedies where nobody breathes between sentences, you might dig it. If you want a plot that makes sense, stay away. It’s basically a short film based on a comic strip. Windy Riley is this guy who is supposed to be racing from New York to San Fran without stopping. But then he just... stops? He crashes into a movie mogul's car and suddenly he is working in a ..."
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