The Scorcher is a 1927 American silent action film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Thelma Parr and Hank Mann.^[1] It was distributed by the independent Rayart Pictures, the forerunner of Monogram Pictures.

A young mechanic has invented a potentially valuable new device, but he is unable to fund its development. When he learns about a cross-country motorcycle race with a cash prize he decides to enter.

• Reed Howes as Mike O'Malley
• Thelma Parr
• Hank Mann
• Harry Allen
• Ernest Hilliard
• Georgie Chapman

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

• The Scorcher at IMDb