Blonde Comet

Virginia Vale has been tearing up the roads in European race-car driving, despite the slighting comments of the men. She goes through the same thing when she returns to the US to join the circuit, particularly by swell-headed Robert Kent, who's just about as good as he thinks. He's invented a carburetor which he and Barney Oldfield are trying to get into commercial production.

Oldfield gets about ten minutes of screen time, and the rest of the story gets about twenty. Half of this film is shots from actual car-racing events, shot wild, pulled from the newsreels with some sounds of engines, screeching tires, and crowd noises added by sound man Ben Winkler. Vince Barnett adds some weak comic relief as a member of Kent's pit crew who holds up slates marked with the number of laps to go. William Beaudine directs, but adds little to production except, undoubtedly, some efficiency in the shoot.