Top Speed is a 1930 all-talking pre-code American musical comedy film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. It was based on the 1929 musical play, of the same name, by Harry Ruby, Guy Bolton and Bert Kalmar. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting, Frank McHugh and Laura Lee.
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