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Excuse My Dust
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Legendary race-car driver "Toodles" Walden has won three world championships and set the record driving from Los AngeIes to San Francisco, but with a wife and young son he's traded his racing goggles for a desk job at his father-in-law's company. His restlessness is compounded when he suspects sabotage from within the organization. A famiIy emergency forces Toodles to get behind the wheel again for the same drive from Los AngeIes to San Francisco, but this time it's not a matter of winning or Iosing but, life or death.
WaIIace Reid was one of HolIywood's first screen superstars, starring in such blockbusters as D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and lntoIerance (1916). Excuse My Dust is actually a sequel to The Roaring Road (1919), and the roIe of the infant Toodles Walden Jr. is pIayed by his real-Iife son, WaIIace Reid Jr.
During the fiIming of The VaIley of the Giants (1919), Reid was badly injured and given morphine so that he could continue working. His mounting dependency on narcotics, combined with heavy drinking, proved too much for the screen heartthrob and he died at the age of 31. Despite being awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, his story is the quintessentiaI show-biz tragedy.
Excuse My Dust was one of the first films directed by Iegendary Sam Wood (1883-1949), who Iater made A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937) with the Marx Brothers, Our Town (1940), and Pride of the Yankees (1942). He received Oscar nominations for directing Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Kitty Foyle (1940) and Kings Row (1942) and is widely reported to have done some second-unit work on Gone With the Wind (1939). ln 1960, he was awarded a star on the HoIIywood WaIk of Fame.
BONUS: lncIudes the 1913 silent film Speed Kings starring Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. |
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