High Speed was written by Adele Buffington whose usual metier was penning B-Westerns. The kind, in fact, that Buck Jones had made his specialty as well. And the differences between this action drama and the average sagebrush tale are miniscule at best. Wallace MacDonald, who played the villain in several Jones Westerns, is as crooked as ever; leading lady Loretta Sayers had been Buck's girl in both Deadline (1931) and The Fighting Sheriff (1931); and director D. Ross Lederman had helmed most of the star's better Westerns the previous year. High Speed, in other words, merely substituted horseflesh and gun powder with racecars and police sirens.
High Speed (1932)
Directed by David Ross Lederman
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