Born Reckless (1937 film)
Born Reckless | |
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20th Century Fox | |
Release date | June 25, 1937 |
Running time | 59 minutes |
Language | English |
Born Reckless is a
Plot
Bob Kane, a former auto racer, becomes a cab driver for a company that is being strong-armed by Jim Barnes and his gangsters trying to gain control of all of the city's taxi companies. Having gone through all of his winnings from his auto racing career, Kane hitches a train to the East Coast and joins a cab company owned by a former auto racing acquaintance after demonstrating he still has the skills necessary to handle a vehicle. Soon afterwards, Kane ruffles the feathers of Barnes racketeering outfit by banging up the cabs of his stooges. Then Kane is offered a job by Barnes for almost ten times the money to get him off their backs. He is introduced to an armored cab Barnes intends to use to terrorize the few remaining holdout cab companies into his protection scheme. Kane declines the offer, but not before using Barnes' own war wagon to smash up his garage. Barnes girlfriend, Sybil, then tries to persuade Kane to reconsider the offer, but gets upstaged when an inept Barnes driver using the armored car to harass a fellow driver known to Kane botches the job and the other driver ends up dying from the hit and run gone wrong. Kane resolves to put Barnes behind bars for the crime, but gets stymied when Barnes puts the armored car into hiding. Barnes has his girlfriend then try to convince Kane to leave town with a payoff to prevent more violence. Instead, with a little perjury to get the
Cast
- Rochelle Hudson as Sybil Roberts
- Brian Donlevy as Bob 'Hurry' Kane
- Barton MacLane as Jim Barnes
- Robert Kent as Lee Martin
- Harry Carey as Dad Martin
- Pauline Moore as Dorothy Collins
- Chick Chandler as Windy Bowman
- William Pawley as Mac
- Francis McDonald as Louie
- George Walcott as Danny Horton (as George Wolcott)
- Joseph Crehan as District Attorney
Production
Filming occurred at the
Union Station did not open until 1939.
References
External links
- Born Reckless at IMDb
- Born Reckless at the TCM Movie Database
- Born Reckless at AllMovie
- Born Reckless at the American Film Institute Catalog