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The Kentucky Derby (1922)
Directed by King Baggot
Overview
Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon’s Kentucky mansion, hoping to marry Helen to the colonel’s son, Donald. The colonel agrees, but Donald balks at the suggestion, then reveals his secret marriage to Alice Brown. The colonel turns them out, and Ralph conspires with Bob Thurston to frame Donald for theft of Colonel Gordon’s wager money and to shanghai him. After 3 years Donald discovers the source of his misfortune, returns, finds his wife, hears of a plot against his father’s best racehorse, wrings a complete confession from Thurston, and saves the Derby for his repentant father.
Rated NR | Length 57 minutes
Actors
Reginald Denny | Lillian Rich | Emmett King | Walter McGrail | Gertrude Astor | Lionel Belmore | Kingsley Benedict | Bert Woodruff | Bert Tracy | Harry Carter | Wilfred Lucas | Pat Harmon | Anna Dodge | Verne Winter | Betsy Ann Hisle