**SPOILERS** Corny type of movie about racing and romance with the great matinée idol Clark Gable reunited with Barbara Stanwyck for the first time since 1931. It was back then in the film "Night Nurse" that a thuggish looking and clean shaven Gable as Nick the Chuffeur smacked Barbara, as in house nurse Lona Heart, around and at one point knocked her out cold just to show her he's boss. Gable as Mike Brannan is now twenty older as well as twenty pounds heavier doing what would have suited his previous character Nick the Chauffeur best. Racing midget cars on the Ohio to New Jersey circuit and being the most hated man in the sport.
It's while competing in a race in Newark NJ that Branner meets TV & radio reporter Regina Forbes, Barbara Stanwyck, and it was hate at first sight! Regina always keeps bringing up the unpleasant fact that Brannan was responsible for the death of a fellow race car driver back in Trenton where he forced him off the track in order to win the race. Sure enough as the race begins Brannan driving like a maniac on steroids does the same thing forcing one of the competing drivers out of his lane and ending up crashing into another car killing himself!
Shocked at what she saw Regina writes a not too complementary column about Brannar's wild exploits at the Newark race track that eventually has him back-balled out of the sport. It's later that Regina has second feeling about what she did in destroying Brannan's career as well as falls in love with the big brute, even after he whacked her, to the point where she becomes, in secret, his biggest fan. That after Brannan worked himself out of total obscurity and after getting his race car license back and winning a string of races he became the favorite to win the coveted Indianapolis 500 together with the $200,000.00 1st prize that goes along with it.
Regina also gets to see what Brannan meant about winning at all cost in what she eventually did to financier Dwight Barrington, Roland Winter. It was Barrington whom Regina exposed in her columns as a rip off artist who defrauded his company run pension fund as well as the thousands of people who had invested in it! Being sentenced to 25 years in the can, prison, Barrington blew his brains out before he was to be sent up the river! Regina realized that what she did to Barrington was as bad as what Brannar did to those who got too close to him on the race track and tried to pass him in order the win the race. Even though they weren't convicted criminals like Barrington was!
***SPOILERS*** Heart racing final with Branner out to win the Indianapolis 500 at all cost suddenly gets religious and in order to please a lady , Rigina Forbes, refrains from his hard hitting and somewhat underhanded tactics in order to win the race to be for once the good guy in order to win Rigina Forbes' heart. An in the end Brannan ends up winning, in the opinion of those of us watching, both!
It's while competing in a race in Newark NJ that Branner meets TV & radio reporter Regina Forbes, Barbara Stanwyck, and it was hate at first sight! Regina always keeps bringing up the unpleasant fact that Brannan was responsible for the death of a fellow race car driver back in Trenton where he forced him off the track in order to win the race. Sure enough as the race begins Brannan driving like a maniac on steroids does the same thing forcing one of the competing drivers out of his lane and ending up crashing into another car killing himself!
Shocked at what she saw Regina writes a not too complementary column about Brannar's wild exploits at the Newark race track that eventually has him back-balled out of the sport. It's later that Regina has second feeling about what she did in destroying Brannan's career as well as falls in love with the big brute, even after he whacked her, to the point where she becomes, in secret, his biggest fan. That after Brannan worked himself out of total obscurity and after getting his race car license back and winning a string of races he became the favorite to win the coveted Indianapolis 500 together with the $200,000.00 1st prize that goes along with it.
Regina also gets to see what Brannan meant about winning at all cost in what she eventually did to financier Dwight Barrington, Roland Winter. It was Barrington whom Regina exposed in her columns as a rip off artist who defrauded his company run pension fund as well as the thousands of people who had invested in it! Being sentenced to 25 years in the can, prison, Barrington blew his brains out before he was to be sent up the river! Regina realized that what she did to Barrington was as bad as what Brannar did to those who got too close to him on the race track and tried to pass him in order the win the race. Even though they weren't convicted criminals like Barrington was!
***SPOILERS*** Heart racing final with Branner out to win the Indianapolis 500 at all cost suddenly gets religious and in order to please a lady , Rigina Forbes, refrains from his hard hitting and somewhat underhanded tactics in order to win the race to be for once the good guy in order to win Rigina Forbes' heart. An in the end Brannan ends up winning, in the opinion of those of us watching, both!