Ok, first off....what is wrong with Chase's little sister?? I know she had braces because she couldn't walk, but why couldn't she walk?? And second....how the hell did he drive so fast through bumpy roads and fields with those cases of nitro, and not be blown away??
Otherwise, not a bad film, except of course for that dreaded song.
Maybe Chase was silently (not to mention, fervently!) singing "The Little Flower Song" (?) to himself, when he was hauling "caboose" across that bumpy field in his hot-rod? Go, Chase, go!!!
shareI think she probably had Polio. That was pretty wide spread among kids until the vaccine was invented by Jonas Salk in 1955.
The nitro was suspended but you are right, slosh that stuff hard enough and BOOM!!!!
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she did have polio.
and if she did, why did that maid make her carry that big bag and run and then leave her there to die? wtc.
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Polio was a terror disease before 1955. It was epidemic and left thousands of people , mainly children, in positive pressure ventilators (iron lungs) for the rest of their life due to neck-down paralysis. A lucky few recovered use of their limbs but many people's legs never recovered and had (still have) to wear braces. My best friend got polio as a baby in 1954 and is and will be in his braces. Though the Salk vaccine was developed in 1952 it wasn't generally released until 1955, too late for my friend and a lot of other people.
shareOne of it's more well known victims was Franklin Roosevelt. It's why he was in a wheelchair.
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