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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor is a 1939 race car film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton and Harry Carey. The screenplay was written by Milton Merlin and Byron Morgan from the novel Salute to the Gods by racing driver and journalist Malcolm Campbell.
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor: Directed by Edward Sedgwick. With Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton, Harry Carey. A series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic suspects they were not accidents.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Edward Sedgwick
- 1939-01-13
Race car builder P.G. Delano is determined to break speed records no matter how many of his drivers die in meet after meet. During a midget auto race, Delano watches driver Jerry O'Connor, a country hick with a mania for speed, and offers him a job driving in the big time.
- Edward Sedgwick, Gilbert Kurland
- Dennis O'keefe
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Racing-car enthusiast Jerry O'Connor and his dim-witted mechanic Buddy Buttle get their chance to join the crew of race-car builder Pinky Delano, who just suffered a setback when one of his drivers was killed by failing to make a turn on the track.
Race-car magnate Pinky Delano (Harry Carey), obsessed with breaking speed records, sees O'Connor in a small-time auto race, hires him to be one of his racers and hires Buddy to be a...
- Drama
Apr 28, 2017 · Burn ‘Em Up, O’Connor tells the story of friends Jerry O’Connor (Dennis O’Keefe) and Buddy Buttle (Nat Pendleton) and their rise from the farm to the race track. Jerry is the racecar-obsessed one, willing to sleep through movies just to watch racing news reels and risk getting fired for racing the farm’s tractors.
