The Long Shot (1939)

6.0/10 69 min Drama

Overview

A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.

Cast

Gordon Jones

Jeff Clayton

Marsha Hunt

Martha Sharon

Harry Davenport

Henry Sharon

C. Henry Gordon

Lew Ralston

George Meeker

Dell Baker

George E. Stone

Danny Welch

Frank Darien

Zeb Jenkins

Tom Kennedy

Mike Claurens

Emerson Treacy

Henry Knox

Gay Seabrook

Helen Knox

Dorothy Fay

Betty Ralston

Earle Hodgins

Collins

Wilbur Mack

Bookmaker

Lee Phelps

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