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Date: 1948
Type: Drama / Horse racing
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Arthur Crabtree
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Comment/Synopsis
A race horse owner (John MCCallum) is distraught to have to put down one of his horses and so thinks about throwing the next race in order to improve the odds for the next race to make money as he is broke. In a drunken state to tells his ex-girlfriend (Greta Gynt) the plan and then he changes his mind and tells her the change of plan, but as a jealous woman she plans to ruin him. The film play out against a background of hose racing, betting and the aristocracy. Great Gynt is good as the woman manipulating men and the situation for money and her own ends and Sonia Holm gives good support as the training and secret lover of John McCallum
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