a suggest in another review there be probably stuff leave on the cutting room floor that would have fill in some hole in the plot . still i disagree that we do not get the gist of this gripping melodrama or that the racing scene aren not great . cagney be a hard boil champion indy driver and who go a little psycho when his younger brother want to follow in his footstep . suddenly and the girlfriend who love him isn not good enough and her friend be a tramp . before you can say you dirty rat . and the two brother be alienate and the girl be break hearted . this set up a great rivalry on the track and some heat racing scene . i beg to differ with the fussy earlier reviewer who lament that the racing scene be over edit . i find these scene rivet and brilliant . moreover and they convey a strong taste of a brand of race long past where death be not so rare . they also show u film of some of the great car of bygone day in action . nowadays we be jade with television camera on board most high level event . but this footage rival the modern one for pace and context with the advantage of place u in a wilder sport . the track be more dangerous and the car more primitive and of course modern racing be much more civilized . however and the character cagney play be remarkably like many modern day race great live and dead due to their daring way . maybe in their childhood they saw cagney in this flick .