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8.2/10   343 votes
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Writers:
Byron Morgan (story) and
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Release Date:
7 September 1929 (USA) more
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Talking COMEDY! (original poster)
Plot:
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover... more | add synopsis
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On The Race Track With Bill Haines more (2 total)

Cast

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William Haines ... Bill Whipple

Anita Page ... Patricia 'Pat' Bonner
Ernest Torrence ... Jim MacDonald
Karl Dane ... Dugan
John Miljan ... Lee Renny
Eugenie Besserer ... Mrs. MacDonald
Polly Moran ... Waitress
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System) (musical score and sound effects) | Silent
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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
On The Race Track With Bill Haines, 30 January 2000
7/10
Author: Ron Oliver (revilorest@juno.com) from Forest Ranch, CA

Love & revenge, thrills & spills. A cocky young man. A beautiful young lady. A nasty celebrity racer and a decent old driver with a bad heart. They will all come together for the great Decoration Day Race at the Indianapolis SPEEDWAY

This is a fairly typical William Haines silent comedy. He chases pretty Anita Page throughout, engaging in antics so annoying they'd get him arrested today. Haines' personality is a bit much at times, but he is never anything less than entertaining. He benefits here by much location shooting at the famous Raceway.

The supporting cast is good: Ernest Torrence & Eugenie Besserer are the old driver & his wife who've taken Haines in like a son; Karl Dane is a good-natured, if slow-witted, mechanic; John Miljan is properly repugnant as the bad guy. The ubiquitous Polly Moran scores in her one scene as a frowzy hash house waitress.

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