Racetrack (film) explained

Racetrack
Director:James Cruze
Producer:Samuel Zierler
Starring:Leo Carrillo
Junior Coughlan
Kay Hammond
Cinematography:Charles Schoenbaum
Editing:Rose Loewinger
Studio:James Cruze Productions
Distributor:Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
Fox Film Corporation
Runtime:79 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

Racetrack is a 1933 American pre-Code drama directed by James Cruze and starring Leo Carrillo, Junior Coughlan and Kay Hammond. This film is now considered lost.

Plot

Horse racing bookmaker Joe Tomasso (Leo Carrillo) becomes involved with homeless waif Jackie Curtis (Junior Coughlan) whose mother abandoned him some years before. Tomasso acts as the young boy's unofficial guardian and agrees to allow him to become a jockey with the stipulation that all his races must be honest ones. Jackie's mother Myra shows up and wants them to be a family again. She becomes upset over her son's involvement in the sport of racing. Tomasso deliberately creates a situation to drive a wedge between himself and Jackie so that the youth will return to his mother.[1]

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Racetrack. AFI Catalog of Feature Films. AFI. July 28, 2015.