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Silks and Saddles(1936)
Status: Released
Date: 1936-12-14
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Time: 1h 3m
THE FASTEST, FUNNIEST, RACING PICTURE YOU'VE EVER SEEN!
Overview:
College student Jimmy Shaw inherits a racehorse, named Lightning Lad, and sells stock to fellow students in order to obtain funds for racing the horse. Lightning Lad wins very race he is entered in. Marion Braddock, a spoiled rich girl who owns a racing stable offers to buy Lightning Lad, but Jimmy refuses to sell. The day of the big handicap-race arrives and Jimmy and his fellow stockholders are on their way to the track. But a group of gamblers, betting on Lightning Lad to lose, have some skullduggery plans to ensure Lightning Lad does not win the race.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Victory Pictures Corporation
Movie: Silks and Saddles
Top 10 Billed Cast
Bruce Bennett
Jimmy Shay
Toby Wing
Marion Braddock / Jane Smith
Fuzzy Knight
Bottsie Botsworth
Trixie Friganza
Aunt Agatha Braddock
Frank Melton
Les Winters
Bess Flowers
Les Winters' Date
Roger Williams
Henchman
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College student Jimmy Shaw inherits a racehorse, named Lightning Lad, and sells stock to fellow students in order to obtain funds for racing the horse. Lightning Lad wins very race he is entered in. Marion Braddock, a spoiled rich girl who owns a racing stable offers to buy Lightning Lad, but Jimmy refuses to sell. The day of the big handicap-race arrives and Jimmy and his fellow stockholders are on their way to the track. But a group of gamblers, betting on Lightning Lad to lose, have some skullduggery plans to ensure Lightning Lad does not win the race.
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1936-12-14
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THE FASTEST, FUNNIEST, RACING PICTURE YOU'VE EVER SEEN!
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