THE CROWD ROARS.
James Cagney & Joan Blondell,
Ann Dvorak, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh.
Dir: Howard Hawks, 1932, Warner Bros.

SYNOPSIS:
Typical tough guy moves as a motor racing champion tries to disuade his younger brother from following in his dangerous pushing-the-pedal-to-the-floor footsteps.

"Frank McHugh and I shared a suite at the Santa Barbara Hotel. We'd stay up the entire night and talk. We'd talk until we had to go to work the next morning. We worked the next day through without sleep but we were young and thought little of it. The picture turned out to be a miserable thing and I didn't enjoy it, but at that early point in my career I was doing it for a living, which means you do as required and what the hell?"
- Jimmy Cagney.

REVIEWS:
"The story is not precisely exciting... the closing episode is best, for it reveals a certain originality in having the injured automobile racers eager to continue the race in ambulances on the way to the hospital."
- Mordaunt Hall, New York Times.
"As so often Hawks seems bitter at the world men have created but respects those who have to attempt to live it to the full."
- NFT. (whatever that is?)