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Daredevil Drivers (1938)
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12 February 1938 (USA) moreTagline:
CRASHING ROARING ACTION...Breathless Romance From The Start To The Finish Flag! morePlot:
A hotshot race-car driver gets suspended, and winds up driving for a shady bus company. This causes problems with his girlfriend... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
The cars are the stars... moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Beverly Roberts | ... | Jerry Neeley |
 | Dick Purcell | ... | Bill Foster |
| Gloria Blondell | ... | Lucy Mack |
| Gordon Oliver | ... | Mark Banning |
| Charley Foy | ... | 'Stub' Wilson |
| Donald Briggs | ... | Tommy Burnell |
| Eric Stanley | ... | Mr. Lane |
| Max Hoffman Jr. | ... | Joe Bailey |
| Ferris Taylor | ... | Councilman Baker |
| Cliff Clark | ... | Mr. McAullife |
| Earl Dwire | ... | Mr. Perkins |
| William Hopper | ... | Neeley Bus Driver |
| Fred Lawrence | ... | Burnell Bus Driver |
| Anderson Lawler | ... | Mr. Bounty (as Anderson Lawlor) |
| John Harron | ... | Mr. Chet Maxfield |
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USA:Approved (PCA #3791) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)FAQ
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This Warner's First National programmer is only worth watching when Dick Percell is behind the wheel of a speeding vehicle. Produced by Charles Foy and co-starring his comic-foil younger brother, Charles, The Daredevil Drivers is a typical bad guys (in the form of a competing underhanded bus company) vs. good guys (underdog bus company ran by Beverly Roberts) and a wayward dirt track racer (Percell) that gets in the middle of it all. I watched it mainly to see William ("Paul Drake") Hopper in a 20-second cameo (hey, he got screen credit!) as a disgruntled bus driver and to check out hottie Gloria Blondell's first stab at acting on film. What I came away with is how much better this could have been with a different cast. Neither Percell (who could double for Dick Foran) or Beverly Roberts (think of a bland Gloria Stuart) makes an impression and Charles Foy could be replaced by anyone from Shemp Howard to Frank McHugh to Allen Jenkins. Strictly a programmer, it's interesting really only for shots of spectacular dirt track racing that appears early on---the inserted stock footage looks fatal--- and the cars (the supposedly broke Percell tools around town in a semi-customized Packard roadster). I'm still trying to figure out what Gloria Blondell saw in Charles Foy. There's nothing much here folks!