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The Million Dollar Handicap
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Wikipedia article
'The Million Dollar Handicap' is a 1925 American silent sports drama film directed by Scott Sidney and starring Edmund Burns, Ralph Lewis and Ward Crane.Connelly p.386 It is based on the 1902 novel 'Thoroughbreds' by William Alexander Fraser. It was released in Britain the following year under the alternative title 'The Pride of the Paddock'.
Synopsis
A Southern horse breeder buys a filly named Dixie and enters her in a race, only for her to be doped and his family's fortunes to implode. Eventually his daughter rides it to victory, solving their various misfortunes.
Cast
* Edmund Burns as George Mortimer
* Ralph Lewis as John Porter
* Ward Crane as Phillip Crane
* Tom Wilson as Tom
* Clarence Burton as Langdon
* Danny Hoy as Jockey
* Rosa Gore as Marilda Porter
* Ralph Emerson as Alan Porter
* Lon Poff as Milkman
References
Bibliography
* Connelly, Robert B. 'The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2'. December Press, 1998.
* Munden, Kenneth White. 'The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1'. University of California Press, 1997.
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