Paramount Pictures; 1922; dir: Philip E. Rosen; cast: Wallace Reid, Mary MacLaren, Theodore Roberts. Vintage original 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm.) U.S. lobby card, excellent condition. The image features a close shot of Jimmy Dent (Wallace Reid), the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, driving a period racing car and accompanied by pretty Louise Fowler (Mary MacLaren), the daughter of his father's competitor. The couple are greeted by Jimmy's father, John (Theodore Roberts, left) and a crowd of reporters. This vintage original lobby card is in excellent condition with a chip at each lower corner and and a 0.75 in. tear on the outer white border just above the lower right corner. There is a thin vertical 3 in. line of toning at the upper right corner.

Plot Summary: John Dent, an automobile manufacturer, produces an inexpensive but effective car. His son, Jimmy, rebels when Dent orders all his employees to drive Dent cars. Moreover, Lorraine, daughter of Dutton Tyler, Dent's competitor, induces Jimmy to buy one of her father's expensive roadsters. Later, however, when Jimmy learns that Tyler has plotted to wreck a Dent entry in a transcontinental race, he gives up his roadster and agrees to drive his father's car in another race. Louise, his father's secretary, tries to warn him of a sabotage attempt and intervenes by disguising herself as a mechanic; together, they barely escape the path of a train in a railroad tunnel, and Jimmy wins the race and Louise.

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