Overview
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
Director and cast
- Charles Lamont Director
- Gordon Jones as Jeff Clayton
- Marsha Hunt as Martha Sharon
- Harry Davenport as Henry Sharon
- C. Henry Gordon as Lew Ralston
- George Meeker as Dell Baker
- George E. Stone as Danny Welch
- Frank Darien as Zeb Jenkins
- Tom Kennedy as Mike Claurens
- Emerson Treacy as Henry Knox
- Gay Seabrook as Helen Knox
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