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The Sporting Lover
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = The Sporting Lover
| image = File:The Sporting Lover.jpg
| caption =
| director = Alan Hale
| producer = Edward Small
E.M. Asher
| writer = Carey Wilson
Malcolm Stuart Boylan
| based_on = 'Good Luck' by Ian Hay
| starring = Conway Tearle
Barbara Bedford
Ward Crane
| music =
| cinematography = Faxon M. Dean
Robert Newhard
| editing = Edward M. Roskam
| studio = Faultless Pictures
| distributor = First National Pictures
| released =
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'The Sporting Lover' is a 1926 American silent sports romance film directed by Alan Hale and starring Conway Tearle, Barbara Bedford and Ward Crane.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090527180814/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/52388 BFI.org] It was based on the British play 'Good Luck' by Ian Hay.
Plot
During the First World War an American officer and a British aristocrat fall in love but are separated. After the war he returns to find her engaged to another man. The issue is settled by a bet on The Derby horse race.
Cast
* Conway Tearle as Captain Terrance Connaughton
* Barbara Bedford as Lady Gwendolyn
* Ward Crane as Captain Sir Phillip Barton
* Arthur Rankin as Algernon Cravens
* Charles McHugh as Paddy O'Brien Connaughton's Servant
* Johnny Fox as Aloysius Patrick O'Brien Paddy's Son
* Bodil Rosing as Nora O'Brien
* George Ovey as Jockey
References
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