Racetrack (film)

1933 film by James Cruze

Racetrack

Directed by| James Cruze
Written by| Walter Lang, Douglas Doty, Wells Root, J. Walter Ruben
Produced by| Samuel Zierler
Starring| Leo Carrillo
Junior Coughlan
Kay Hammond
Cinematography| Charles Schoenbaum
Edited by| Rose Loewinger

Production
company

James Cruze Productions

Distributed by| Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
Fox Film Corporation

Release date

* February 25, 1933 (1933-02-25)

Running time

| 79 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Racetrack is a 1933 American pre-Code drama directed by James Cruze and starring Leo Carrillo, Junior Coughlan and Kay Hammond. This film is now considered lost.

## Plot

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Horse racing bookmaker Joe Tomasso (Leo Carrillo) becomes involved with homeless waif Jackie Curtis (Junior Coughlan) whose mother abandoned him some years before. Tomasso acts as the young boy's unofficial guardian and agrees to allow him to become a jockey with the stipulation that all his races must be honest ones. Jackie's mother Myra shows up and wants them to be a family again. She becomes upset over her son's involvement in the sport of racing. Tomasso deliberately creates a situation to drive a wedge between himself and Jackie so that the youth will return to his mother.[1]

## Cast

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* Leo Carrillo as Joe Tomasso
* Junior Coughlan as Jackie Curtis
* Kay Hammond as Myra Curtis
* Lee Moran as "Horseface"
* Huntley Gordon as Attorney
* Wilfred Lucas as Mr. Ryan
* Joseph W. Girard as Judge

## See also

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* List of films about horses
* List of films about horse racing

## References

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1. ^ "Racetrack". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. AFI. Retrieved July 28, 2015.

## External links

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* Racetrack at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
* Racetrack at IMDb
* Racetrack at the TCM Movie Database

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