EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 209, 23 November 1927, Page 14

EVERYBODY’S

“FAST AND FURIOUS” The pick of America’s best automobile racing talent, comprising a galaxy of motor speedw'ay stars, was directed by Melville Brown during the filming of “Fast and Furious,” the latest Uni-versal-Jewel production starring Reginald Denny, now being shown at Everybody’s Theatre. The list of daredevil speed-annihila-tors included Eddie Hearne, J. L. Wilharbor, Russell Garmont, Steve Elmore, Ted Simpson, Eddie . Miller, Dewey Skipworth and a dozen others. The troupe of racers spent several weeks at California race tracks, including the mile and a-quarter speedway at San Luis Obispo. Costly highpowered racing cars, many of which have shattered world’s speed records, were used in the thrilling race sequences, in which Denny himself, noted as a motor sports enthusiast, participated. Leo Nomis, recognised as one of the most successful drivers in the game, was engaged to wreck his expensive racing mount at a dangerous corner, at a high rate of speed in the course of a hair-raising tilt with Denny in his car.

Barbara ’Worth, one of Universal’s younger players, who had been featured in Western film roles, makes her debut as a leading lady for Denny in this picture.