Racy Gals and Gambling Guys in M-G-M's Romantic Comedy
When Carol Maldon inherits her family's stable and a horse with strong racing potential, she begins working with suave trainer Rick Grayton. Intent on owning the horse himself, Rick hinders its true abilities so that he can buy the steed on the cheap. Rick's plan is complicated, however, when he realizes that he's falling for Carol. Making matters worse, the jealous Mercedes Bellway uncovers Rick's deception and uses the information to cause trouble.
Rick Grayton
Carol Maldon
Ma Parkson
Mercedes Bellway
David Sandring
Jigger Parkson
Manuel Morales
'Two Pair' Buford
Hungry Istvan Kulhanek
Ben Iron Mountain
23 Feb 1931
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
12 Dec 2016
An Osomatsu-san special funded in part by the Japan Racing Association, a company that oversees horse racing and betting.
10 Dec 1971
At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him.
05 Apr 1948
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
05 Oct 1946
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
18 Aug 1989
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.
05 Sep 2014
The slightly chubby harness racer Bjarte doesn't get the good horses anymore, and is forced to enter the criminal path in order to keep menacing creditors at bay. A fatal choice of partners ends up in a failed doping attempt, and a consequent kidnapping of the top horse Berlusconi.
29 Oct 1936
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
17 Apr 1986
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
10 Sep 2025
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
29 Oct 1976
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
10 Jun 1953
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
01 Mar 1996
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
A disgraced jockey tries to re-enter his beloved sport of horse racing — with a centaur.
21 Nov 1936
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
30 Dec 1938
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
20 Apr 1984
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
04 Jul 2015
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him on a road trip to a legendary high stakes poker game in New Orleans. As they make their way down the Mississippi River, Gerry and Curtis manage to find themselves in just about every bar, racetrack, casino, and pool hall they can find, experiencing both incredible highs and dispiriting lows, but ultimately forging a deep and genuine bond that will stay with them long after their adventure is over.
14 Feb 2012
Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.
08 May 1942
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.