# Red Hot Speed

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{{short description|1929 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Red Hot Speed
| image          = Red Hot Speed poster.jpg
 
| caption        = 
| director       = [Joseph Henabery](/source/Joseph_Henabery) 
| producer       = [Carl Laemmle](/source/Carl_Laemmle)
| writer         = {{ubl|[Albert DeMond](/source/Albert_DeMond)|[Gladys Lehman](/source/Gladys_Lehman)|Matt Taylor|[Faith Thomas](/source/Faith_Thomas_(screenwriter))}}
| narrator       = 
| starring       = {{ubl|[Reginald Denny](/source/Reginald_Denny_(actor))|[Alice Day](/source/Alice_Day)|[Charles Byer](/source/Charles_Byer)}}
| music          = 
| editing        = {{ubl|[Ray Curtiss](/source/Ray_Curtiss)|[John English](/source/John_English_(film_director))}}
| cinematography = [Arthur L. Todd](/source/Arthur_L._Todd)
| studio         = [Universal Pictures](/source/Universal_Pictures)
| distributor    = Universal Pictures
| released       = {{Film date|1929|01|27}}
| runtime        = 60 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = Sound (Part-Talkie)<br>[English](/source/English-language) Intertiles
| budget         =  
| gross          =
}}
'''''Red Hot Speed''''' is a 1929 American sound [part-talkie](/source/part-talkie) [comedy film](/source/comedy_film) directed by [Joseph Henabery](/source/Joseph_Henabery) and starring [Reginald Denny](/source/Reginald_Denny_(actor)), [Alice Day](/source/Alice_Day) and [Charles Byer](/source/Charles_Byer). In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The sound was recorded using the [Western Electric Sound System](/source/Movietone_sound_system).<ref>Katchmer p.224</ref>

==Synopsis==
The daughter of a newspaper owner is arrested for speeding. To avoid embarrassing her father, who is in the middle of an anti-speeding campaign, she gives a false name to the authorities. She is then turned over to the district attorney who is unaware of her real identity.

==Cast==
* [Reginald Denny](/source/Reginald_Denny_(actor)) as Darrow  
* [Alice Day](/source/Alice_Day) as Buddy Long  
* [Charles Byer](/source/Charles_Byer) as George  
* [Tom Ricketts](/source/Tom_Ricketts) as Colonel Long  
* [DeWitt Jennings](/source/DeWitt_Jennings) as Judge O'Brien  
* [Fritzi Ridgeway](/source/Fritzi_Ridgeway) as Slavey 
* [Hector V. Sarno](/source/Hector_V._Sarno) as Italian father

==See also==
* [List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)](/source/List_of_early_sound_feature_films_(1926%E2%80%931929))

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* George A. Katchmer. ''Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known''. McFarland, 1991.

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0020316}}

Category:1929 films
Category:1929 comedy films
Category:American comedy films
Category:Films directed by Joseph Henabery
Category:1929 English-language films
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1929 American films
Category:Part-talkie films
Category:English-language comedy films

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