The Crowd Roars

[This is a contribution to the Early Hawks Blog-a-thon hosted right here at Only The Cinema. It will run from January 12 to January 23, 2009.]

How do you manage to bring together Howard Hawks, James Cagney, fast race cars and hot women, and still make a lousy picture? Against all odds, The Crowd Roars pulls off this unlikely feat, as Hawks desperately tries to find something of worth in this