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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1134

Excuse My Dust

192048 minUnited States

Synopsis

Former racing driver Toodles promises his wife that he will stop speeding, but temptation costs him the right to drive. Domestic trouble is joined by a rival company's plot against the motor business he manages. A race between Los Angeles and San Francisco brings his old skills back into play at a critical moment.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 48:01
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Sam Wood · Public domain

Cast

Wallace Reid

DirectorsSam Wood

Inspirations

Sam Wood directed Wallace Reid in an adaptation of Byron Morgan's story The Bear Trap. The motor-racing plot joins industrial competition to the hero's difficulty in keeping a personal promise.

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Wallace Reid — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research · Public domain

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