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80% Critic Match
Silks and Saddles
“THE FASTEST, FUNNIEST, RACING PICTURE YOU'VE EVER SEEN!”
8.0 / 10• 1936• 1h 3m•NR• English
ActionComedyRomance
Storyline
College student Jimmy Shaw inherits a racehorse, named Lightning Lad, and sells stock to fellow students in order to obtain funds for racing the horse. Lightning Lad wins very race he is entered in. Marion Braddock, a spoiled rich girl who owns a racing stable offers to buy Lightning Lad, but Jimmy refuses to sell. The day of the big handicap-race arrives and Jimmy and his fellow stockholders are on their way to the track. But a group of gamblers, betting on Lightning Lad to lose, have some skullduggery plans to ensure Lightning Lad does not win the race.
Cast & Crew
Bruce Bennett
Jimmy Shay
Lead
Toby Wing
Marion Braddock / Jane Smith
Fuzzy Knight
Bottsie Botsworth
Trixie Friganza
Aunt Agatha Braddock
Frank Melton
Les Winters
RM
Robert McClung
T. Midge Connolly
Bess Flowers
Les Winters' Date
RT
Roy Thompson
Trainer
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Robert F. Hill's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Silks and Saddles is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
