I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

I love this movie so much

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I just watched my DVR of "Burn 'Em Up O'Connor" again last night. First, let's understand something. No truly GOOD racing movies exist except possibly for "Grand Prix," "LeMans," "Rush." and some documentaries. Directors were just too lazy and felt that spectacle could replace good writing. Even "To Please a Lady," is too simplistic and inaccurate.That doesn't mean that we can't enjoy the stylized, often cliche'-ridden efforts of the past. If you love racing history and its heroes, then you have to put up with the banal efforts of the deep past and enjoy the actual footage and drivers' cameo roles, etc. So what makes this one worthwhile? How about appearances and actual use of three of the more iconic cars in Indianapolis "500" history, the Stevens/Winfield car built for 3-time winner Lou Meyer and the two Sparks/Adams cars built for Joel Thorne? Apparently Thorne drove in this movie and furnished these cars as well as the ex-Pirrung car built by Wilbur Shaw for the 1935 "500." That car finished second with Shaw, before his three wins, and 9th with Thorne in 1938, the year this film was made. The Stevens/Winfield car and the Thorne-Sparks (Adams) cars were all built for the 1938 "500", the year this movie was obviously filmed for 1939 release. They had a bad race that year, finishing 14th, 15th, and 16th. However they then became iconic with long lives an, track records, two 2nd places and a win. Three-time winner Meyer retired after a famous filmed flip in 1939 in his attempt from 2nd place to catch Shaw. Several plastic-toy models were made of the Thorne-Sparks cars, including a Wen-Mac engined model of a decade later. There are also other, lesser known, but actual cars of the time on the movie set. Background action footage features the great Ted Horne hogging in early scenes and Shaw and Meyer winning in 1937 and 1938. At least we car enthusiasts can put up with cartoonish characters and dumb plot to see some racing and cars that made history.I enjoyed the hell out of this film, regardless of it's simple stereotypical characters. Give it a break!

Directed by Edward Sedgwick, based on Sir Malcolm Campbell's novel "Salute to the Gods", screenplay by Milton Merlin and Byron Morgan, this film features the ever annoying Dennis O'Keefe in the title role, first name Jerry, as an obnoxious country bumpkin that becomes a race car driver. The underrated Nat Pendleton is the highlight of the film, playing (as usual?) the dumb sidekick of the lead character.Jerry O'Connor (O'Keefe) drives a tractor at breakneck speed while his mechanic friend Buddy (Pendleton) whistles to make sure he turns left before he goes off an embankment. Both are enamored with race car driving: Jerry so much that he makes his friend sit through a "B" picture (hopefully not this one) again so he can see the newsreels about racing that precede it.One day while the two are looking at a racing magazine, a driver crashes his mini race-car into a nearby fence. Seizing upon the opportunity, Jerry gets money from Buddy to give the driver $75 for his wreck. With the mini-car repaired, Jerry literally runs into a young woman (Cecilia Parker) in her automobile while he's trying to demonstrate it to a circus manager. After the accident, he attempts to back her car down a hillside, but it rolls over. She then tricks him into showing her his mini-car such that she can drive it away from the overbearing bore.Later, when Jerry gets his mini-car back, he sees the young woman again. He follows her to a dirt race track where, showing off for her, he impresses Mr. Eberhart (Addison Richards) by making high speed turns around the loop. Soon thereafter, he wins his very first race, impressing Pinky Delano (Harry Carey), whose daughter Jane is the young woman Jerry has been pursuing. Delano hires Jerry and Buddy and introduces them to his other drivers, crew, and team physician 'Doc' Heath (Charley Grapewin).Delano's Rockets seems to be jinxed though: their lead driver "Frenchy" died in a crash that Jerry and Buddy had seen in a newsreel. Subsequently, as part of the team now, the two witness "Rocks" (Alan Curtis), Hogan (Tom Neal), and "Lefty" (Tom Collins) all die in fiery crashes, when they failed to make a turn at high speed, during consecutive races. Though Buddy somehow comes under suspicion from the other mechanic Mac (Frank Orth), it's he that figures out "somebody must be doing something" other than sabotaging the race-cars.From there, the story is pure hokum not the least of which is a sudden change of heart by Jane about Jerry ... though this may pale in comparison to a couple of ridiculous things which happen during the climactic race.

The movie is saved and the annoying hero is saved. Pendleton is cast improbably as a hayseed. O'Keefe is his pal, who gets involved in racing. He falls for the boss's genuinely obnoxious daughter. And there is crime racing through the track: One after another of the drivers for Harry Carey, O'Keefe's boss, smashes up near the end of a race. They all died. Now, are there investigations? It doesn't seem so. Pendleton undertakes one on his own. He finds out that the kindly doctor is causing the accidents.So there is that little touch and the drivers are nicely played. But it's hard to get past the smart-alecky character O'Keefe is playing and the disagreeable one of his girl.

Do you think any race car driver can negotiate a track blindfolded while going over a hundred miles per hour, even with someone giving a whistle at one of the tricky turns? That's one of the idiocies of this film, which asks us to suspend disbelief once too often. I have always liked Dennis O'Keefe, but he comes across here as a pest and nuisance as he joins a racing car group headed by Harry Carey, Sr., mostly because of Carey's daughter, Cecilia Parker, to whom he is attracted. Another problem with the film is that O'Keefe and Parker have zero chemistry together. I don't think Parker smiled even once; she seemed not to be enjoying even being in the film. I enjoyed Nat Pendleton's comic antics, and some of the acting of the drivers Tom Neal and Tom Collins. But overall, it's not much of a racing drama or a murder mystery.