Mairy Mabery Movies

Not a remake of the 1922 film of the same name, Reckless Youth takes place in a college town where everybody parties on and no one comes home before dawn. Footloose co-ed Dixie Calhoun (Marceline Day) is lured into the dorm room of campus lothario George Baxter (Gordon Elliot), but before anything untoward can happen Baxter lapses into a drunken stupor. Later on, Dixie is arrested on a murder charge and grilled on the witness stand by the merciless district attorney (Ralph Forbes). In the course of the trial, Dixie's harmless rendezvous with George Baxter is trotted out as "evidence" of her questionable character. But the heroine is saved by the testimony of the DA's son John (Norman Trevor), Dixie's sweetheart, who proves that his father's entire case is predicated upon his bigoted opposition to John and Dixie's impending marriage. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Popular young B-Western star Bob Steele left the prairie behind this time around and instead found himself playing Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falling in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. During an investigation into racketeering, Jack learns that gangster Velvet (Barney Furey) is attempting to kidnap Betty in order to force her father (William Welsh) to pardon a relative on death row. With the law closing in on him, Velvet attempts to escape with Betty in a balloon but Jack rescues the girl in the proverbial nick of time. The villain, meanwhile, plunges to his death. Lightning Speed was written and directed by the star's father, the redoubtable Robert North Bradbury. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi