Burning Up (film)

Burning Up
Burning Up
	Film poster
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Written by	Grover Jones; William Slavens McNutt
Starring	Richard Arlen; Mary Brian; Francis McDonald; Sam Hardy; Charles Sellon; Tully Marshall
Cinematography	Allen G. Siegler
Edited by	Richard H. Digges Jr.
Music by	Gerard Carbonara; Gene Lucas
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 1, 1930;
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Burning Up is a 1930 American

stunts, and also stars Francis McDonald, Sam Hardy, Charles Sellon, and Tully Marshall. The film was released on February 1, 1930, by Paramount Pictures

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The film was made in an effort by Paramount's Jesse L. Lasky to emulate the success of earlier racing films made by the late Wallace Reid, "emulating Wally's films almost exactly", and with director Allen Sigler having "filmed the racing scenes exactly as Wally's had been done".^[2] One review described it as "the old racing-car scenario brought up to date with sound and talk".^[3]

Plot

Cast

Richard Arlen as Lou Larrigan
Mary Brian as Ruth Morgan
Francis McDonald as 'Bullet' McGhan
Sam Hardy as Windy 'Wally' Wallace
Charles Sellon as James R. Morgan
Tully Marshall as Dave Gentry

References

^ John Douglas Eames, The Paramount story (1985), p. 75.
^ E.J. Fleming, Wallace Reid: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol (2013), p. 235.
^ Outlook and Independent (1930), Vol. 154, p. 313.

External links

Burning Up at
IMDb

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[1] John Douglas Eames, The Paramount story (1985), p. 75.

[2] E.J. Fleming, Wallace Reid: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol (2013), p. 235.

[3] Outlook and Independent (1930), Vol. 154, p. 313.

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