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  1. California Straight Ahead! is a 1937 American action film about truck drivers starring John Wayne and directed by Arthur Lubin for Universal Pictures. The action movie features a memorable cross-country race between a caravan of trucks and a special train.

  2. California Straight Ahead!: Directed by Arthur Lubin. With John Wayne, Louise Latimer, Robert McWade, Theodore von Eltz. Former school bus driver Biff Smith manages a trucking company which has its fleet pitted against a freight train in a race to deliver aviation parts to the Pacific coast.

    • (189)
    • Action, Drama, Romance
    • Arthur Lubin
    • 1937-04-16
  3. When a strike threatens to delay the delivery of aviation equipment to a ship on the California coast that is scheduled to depart for Japan, Biff, still concerned about the trucking company, conceives of a plan to haul the equipment with the trucks.

    • Arthur Lubin, Glenn Cook
    • John Wayne
  4. Currently you are able to watch "California Straight Ahead" streaming on Public Domain Movies for free. Synopsis Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.

    • Harry A. Pollard
    • 1
  5. California Straight Ahead (1937) Universal, Dir: Arthur Lubin b/w, 67m. Cast: John Wayne, Louise Latimer, Robert McWade, Theodore von Eltz, Tully Marshall, Emerson Treacy.

  6. Story. A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.

  7. Synopsis by Sandra Brennan. This action drama features John Wayne in an early, non western role. He plays a trucker who owns half of a small but increasingly successful trucking firm. When Duke's company begins stealing business away from LeRoy Mason's firm, Mason retaliates by engineering the violent death of Wayne's partner, Emerson Treacy.