crappy rear projection lucky is obnoxious
"Danger on Wheels" is a cheap B-movie, and Richard Arlen made a ton of them. However, the film is different in that although it clearly stinks, it was made by one of the larger studios. While Universal, at that time, was not nearly as big or successful as studios like MGM, Warner or Twentieth Century-Fox, it was big enough that it should have been making better films than THIS. In quality and especially writing, this film looks like sometime from tiny PRC or one of the other so-called 'Poverty Row' studios!
Arlen plays a stunt driver named 'Lucky', though I think a better nickname would have been 'Fat-head', as his character is extremely conceited. Not surprisingly, his attitude is very off-putting and the unfortunate girl he's set his sights on wisely isn't taken in by his brash attitude. Is this because she's intelligent. No...she's clearly an idiot as you'll see through the course of the film-- especially when Lucky and his friend (Andy Devine) try to help her and her father from losing their car company...and she behaves very strange and incredibly hostile. In addition to the film rarely making sense, the leading man being a jerk and the girl being empty- headed, the film uses crappy rear projection and a lot of clichés to bring you 61 minutes of barely passable entertainment. If you care to see it (and for the life of me I don't know why), you can copy it for free from archive.org--a website dedicated to public domain films. And, considering what I just saw, I can clearly understand why Universal didn't bother renewing their copyright on this one!
"Danger on Wheels" is a cheap B-movie, and Richard Arlen made a ton of them. However, the film is different in that although it clearly stinks, it was made by one of the larger studios. While Universal, at that time, was not nearly as big or successful as studios like MGM, Warner or Twentieth Century-Fox, it was big enough that it should have been making better films than THIS. In quality and especially writing, this film looks like sometime from tiny PRC or one of the other so-called 'Poverty Row' studios!
Arlen plays a stunt driver named 'Lucky', though I think a better nickname would have been 'Fat-head', as his character is extremely conceited. Not surprisingly, his attitude is very off-putting and the unfortunate girl he's set his sights on wisely isn't taken in by his brash attitude. Is this because she's intelligent. No...she's clearly an idiot as you'll see through the course of the film-- especially when Lucky and his friend (Andy Devine) try to help her and her father from losing their car company...and she behaves very strange and incredibly hostile. In addition to the film rarely making sense, the leading man being a jerk and the girl being empty- headed, the film uses crappy rear projection and a lot of clichés to bring you 61 minutes of barely passable entertainment. If you care to see it (and for the life of me I don't know why), you can copy it for free from archive.org--a website dedicated to public domain films. And, considering what I just saw, I can clearly understand why Universal didn't bother renewing their copyright on this one!