Richard Arlen (Larry Taylor), Andy Devine ("Guppy" Wexell), Peggy Moran (Pat O'Shea), Sandra King (June Allen),Herbert Corthell (Pop O'Shea), Landers Stevens (Lloyd B. Allen), John Holmes (Danny Winkler), Jack Arnold (Bruce Crowley), Jack Rice (Parker), Mary Treen (Esme), Eddie Chandler (police officer), Frank Santley (official), Eddie Fetherston (Pete), Harry Strang, Jimmie Lucas (mechanics), Joe King (race commissioner), James Morton (police sergeant), Frank Mitchell (truck driver), Tony Paton (race driver), Jack Gardner (Joe), Arthur Roberts (official), Harold Daniels (male secretary).
Director: CHRISTY CABANNE. Screenplay: Maurice Tombragel. Story: Ben Pivar. Photography: Woody Bredell. Associate producer: Ben Pivar.
Copyright 31 December 1939 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. No New York opening. U.S. release: 2 February 1940. Australian release: 8 August 1940. 5,510 feet. 61 minutes.
COMMENT: No account of thrills in the cinema would be complete without a tip of the hat to the team of Richard Arlen and Andy Devine, who turned out no less than 14 action-packed programmers from 1939 to 1941: Legion of Lost Flyers, Mutiny on the Blackhawk, Tropic Fury, Black Diamonds, Devil's Pipeline, Hot Steel, The Man from Montreal, Danger on Wheels, The Leather Pushers, Mutiny in the Arctic, A Dangerous Game, Lucky Devils, Men of the Timberland (which I would regard as their best), and Raiders of the Desert.
"Danger on Wheels" is a pretty standard entry. Even though most of the action footage is obvious stock, director and players — assisted by Woody Bredell's superlative camera-work — manage to whip up a fair degree of excitement.
Director: CHRISTY CABANNE. Screenplay: Maurice Tombragel. Story: Ben Pivar. Photography: Woody Bredell. Associate producer: Ben Pivar.
Copyright 31 December 1939 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. No New York opening. U.S. release: 2 February 1940. Australian release: 8 August 1940. 5,510 feet. 61 minutes.
COMMENT: No account of thrills in the cinema would be complete without a tip of the hat to the team of Richard Arlen and Andy Devine, who turned out no less than 14 action-packed programmers from 1939 to 1941: Legion of Lost Flyers, Mutiny on the Blackhawk, Tropic Fury, Black Diamonds, Devil's Pipeline, Hot Steel, The Man from Montreal, Danger on Wheels, The Leather Pushers, Mutiny in the Arctic, A Dangerous Game, Lucky Devils, Men of the Timberland (which I would regard as their best), and Raiders of the Desert.
"Danger on Wheels" is a pretty standard entry. Even though most of the action footage is obvious stock, director and players — assisted by Woody Bredell's superlative camera-work — manage to whip up a fair degree of excitement.