Vagabond Luck
Cast & Crew
Scott Dunlap
Albert Ray
Elinor Fair
Jack Rollens
John Cossar
William Ryno
Film Details
Synopsis
When jockey Jimmie Driscoll, responsible for making Jim Richardson's horses winners, is fired for being too heavy, he goes to the home of the late Judge Bell, the father of local horseracing. Jimmy is in love with the Judge's daughter Joy, who was left nearly penniless when her father died. Joy's brother Harry writes to her pleading that because he desperately needs money, she should enter the aging Vagabond, the last of the Bell racehorses, in the upcoming annual event. Convinced by crooked bookmaker Spike Bradley that Vagabond will win at twenty-to-one odds, Harry mortgages his half of the house for gambling money. Jimmie discovers that although Vagabond runs horribly on normal turf, she is a "mudder," meaning that she goes into a wild dash on wet ground. After Jimmie and Joy pray for rain, Bradley, learning of Vagabond's condition, threatens the jockey, but Jimmie, riding Vagabond himself in in the rain, wins the race and afterward, Joy's love.
Director
Scott Dunlap
Cast
Albert Ray
Elinor Fair
Jack Rollens
John Cossar
William Ryno
George Millum
Al Fremont
Lloyd Bacon
Johnny Ries
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Notes
The title of this film was changed from A Little Prayer for Rain. Sources conflict concerning the author of the story: the copyright records credit James Frank Tinney, while reviews credit Frank Tenney Jackson. No information has been located concerning the latter, but, at the time, there was a writer of short stories named Charles Tenney Jackson. Whether he or James Frank Tinney was the author of this story has not been determined.
