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Billy Coy, brash young midget car race driver, lives in the shadow of his famous father, a drunken womanizer, who was killed in an accident years earlier. His mantra that he&#39;s going &quot;to drive over&quot; everyone comes back to haunt him when his best friend is killed during a race. Everyone assumes that his ruthless driving style was the cause of the fatality, and it takes the love of a pretty tomboy working as a mechanic and his loyal mother to believe in him and his ability to overcome the resentment and redeem himself.
Billy Coy comes to Carrell. His late father&#39;s mechanic Red hires Billy as a mechanic. Soon, Billy gets a job as a driver.
&quot;The Big Wheel&quot; is not a bad movie. However, the plot is very, very familiar and although I hadn&#39;t seen this movie before, it sure felt that way as MANY films made during the 1930s, 40s and 50s had similar themes. So the film certainly won&#39;t get any kudos from me for originality. But, it is moderately engaging and isn&#39;t a bad time-passer.<br/><br/>Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy--the son of a very famous race car driver that was killed years ago at the Indy 500. He&#39;s intent on following in his father&#39;s footsteps--well, as least as far as being a racing champ! But he&#39;s a bit too cocky and young and folks around him think that he&#39;s a bit too eager. However, it turns out he is very talented and has what it takes to win--provided he doesn&#39;t sabotage himself. In addition, his father&#39;s old pal (Thomas Mitchell) is intent on wooing the widow Coy (Spring Byington). What&#39;s to happen? See the film...or not.<br/><br/>Rooney and the rest of the cast were just fine in this film. There were some other similar films before it and the plot about a guy who alienates everyone but eventually learns humility and makes good is possibly one of the oldest clichés in films! Fortunately, the racing sequences are competently made and the film has enough going for it that you won&#39;t hate it. Not exactly a glowing endorsement, huh?
It was interesting to hear it stated in 1949 when this picture was made that the Indianapolis 500 was already in it&#39;s thirty third year. The film never mentioned the term &#39;Indy 500&#39;, and the event took place on Decoration Day, not Memorial Day. Funny, my mother still calls it Decoration Day; I guess old habits die hard.<br/><br/>For Mickey Rooney, this would have to be one of his quintessential performances, alternately cocky and swaggering, and at other times pensive and solemn. He comes on the scene with an ego as big as all outdoors, and has to get taken down a peg or two before getting a chance to hit the jackpot. Storywise, the movie seems to be all over the place with a disjointed continuity that often left me scratching my head. Like the eye-blinking scene in which he crashes during a race, a newspaper headline announces he has a broken leg, and the very next scene he&#39;s up and around good as new with scant reference to the accident.<br/><br/>Rooney gets decent support from Thomas Mitchell as his sponsor Red Stanley, and Spring Byington as his mom. I expected a bit more in the way of romance between Billy Coy (Rooney) and his grease monkey sweetheart Buddy (Mary Hatcher), but as I mentioned, there was a lot going on. Funny, but I don&#39;t recall her ever being called Louise in the story, her character name as listed in the credits.<br/><br/>Though most of the race scenes were stock footage, they were still effectively done, and some of the crashes looked unusually violent. One in particular, a crash and burn into a wall during the Indy race was especially nasty. Virtually every race made it look like accidents were more the norm than just the occasional mishap.<br/><br/>Of course today, race films and the events themselves are a virtual panoply of commercial endorsements. There were a few instances of product placement here, like Mobil Oil and Coca Cola, but you had to be looking for them.<br/><br/>If you enjoyed this film, try going back another seventeen years to Jimmy Cagney&#39;s 1932 picture &quot;The Crowd Roars&quot;. It also gets it&#39;s start on California dirt tracks, including Culver City which shows up in this flick. There are some Indy scenes as well, though a main point of difference is that it also cameoed some leading race car drivers of the day. Nevertheless, fans of the sport and old time movies get a nice two for one with either of these stories.

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