Reception
Frank S. Nugent reviewed Speed for The New York Times, considering it "a minor motor opera," that, "edifying as it all unquestionably is, does not prevent 'Speed' from being a minor film ... Mr. Stewart, Miss Barrie and the rest perform as pleasantly as possible."
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“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
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