# The Racing Fool (R2)

Reel 2 of The Racing Fool (1927). "The Racing Fool is a 1927 American silent action film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Ruth Dwyer and Ernest Hilliard." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Racing_Fool. Accessed 2023-04-11. "Racing driver Jack Harlowe falls in love with Helen Drake, the daughter of his father's rival automobile manufacturer. Having promised his father to drive in the big race, Howes must refuse the girl's request that he drive for her father, but when he learns that another man (who has his eye on the girl) plans to drive for her father and throw the race, Howes receives parental permission to win the race for the rival." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018300/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl. Accessed 2023-06-01. Notes on can: "Mogull Bros No 8044 Reed Howes Reel 2".

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1927
- By: Harry Joe Brown, George W. Pyper, W. Ray Johnston
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/200429_The_Racing_Fool_R2)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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