The Long Shot

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1939 · 69 min · Drama · TMDB 6.0/10

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.

Directed by Charles Lamont

Cast

• Gordon Jones — Jeff Clayton
• Marsha Hunt — Martha Sharon
• Harry Davenport — Henry Sharon
• C. Henry Gordon — Lew Ralston
• George Meeker — Dell Baker