A habitual loser at the race-track is approached by a man who claims to be an inventor with a machine that can see into the future; but can it predict the winner of tomorrow's race? And just whom is the “inventor” trying to escape anyway?
This short film takes the viewer on a tour through the world of harness racing and show horses.
First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young man. He is well-dressed but has lost all his strength. Merry Fellow needs help.
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
A blonde seduces a quirky liquor-store worker as inspiration for her artist boyfriend.
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
When Chloe and Riley Lawrence are invited to London to participate in the international Model U.N. competition, they enjoy seeing the sights and head over heals romance with cute british boys of course.
릴리(안젤리카 휴스턴 분)는 마피아 보스인 보보(Bobo Justus: 팻 힝글 분)에게 경마 사기로 번 돈을 상납하며 그의 보호아래 살고 있는 전문 사기꾼이다. 모전자전격으로 그의 아들인 로이(Roy Dillon: 존 쿠삭 분) 역시 술집 손님으로 가장해 바텐더를 상대로 사기 행각을 벌여 돈을 뜯으며 살아가는 애송이 사기꾼이다. 그러나 릴리는 아들 로이를 남동생이라고 사람들을 속이는 데 사실, 어릴 때부터 사기판에 뛰어든 릴리는 14살때 로이를 낳았던 것이다. 모자라기엔 좀 어색하고 남매라기엔 다소 어정쩡하고 또 그렇다고 애인이라기엔 너무 징그러운 그런 묘한 분위기가 그들 사이에 흐른다. 그러다 릴리와의 불화 끝에 가출한 로이는 한탕주의자인 마이라(Myra Langtry: 아네트 베닝 분)를 만나 점차 사랑하는 사이로 발전해 간다. 젊고 유혹적인 마이라에게 반한 로이. 그러나 그는 8년만에 만난 릴리의 질투와 방해로 고민에 빠지고 마는데...
미국 제일의 부촌 베벌리 힐즈에 와 온갖 촌티를 내던 디트로이트 경찰 악셀 폴리(에디 머피)가 LA로 돌아 왔다. 베벌리 힐즈 보석상 도난 사건을 맡은 동료들을 돕기 위해서다. 단서는 ABC라는 알파벳 세 글자 뿐. 사건의 해결은 멀게만 보이지만 악셀은 특유의 낙천적인 성격과 대책 없는 유머로 단서를 하나하나 보태 간다.