Cinema’s love affair with car racing is nothing new. While F1 (2025) has ignited the passion of motorsport fans with its stunning action sequences and immersive portrayal of the Formula 1 world, we can look much further back and see that this type of story has long had a place on the big screen. In 1932, the ever-bold Howard Hawks turned James Cagney into a famed race car driver in The Crowd Roars. True to his style, Hawks captured one of the earliest sound films to depict racing with a raw sense of realism, even using actual racetracks for the action scenes.

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