The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.
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Georgia Hale as Nell Wendell
William Collier Jr. as Bobby Robertson
Ernest Torrence as Mike
Brandon Hurst as Doyle
Joseph J. Dowling as Father Murphy (as Joseph Dowling)
Tom Wilson as Chocolate
Martha Mattox as Head Nurse
Charles K. French as Hospital Doctor
Jack Richardson as Western Doctor
Melbourne MacDowell as Bennson
Hope Loring Writer
Gerald Beaumont Story
Louis D. Lighton Writer
Clarence G. Badger Director
H. Kinley Martin Director of Photography
United States 10 May 1926
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02 March 1929
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07 March 1963
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1926:
11 October 1926
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
19 February 1926
The animator tries to lose Dinky Doodle and Weakheart in the countryside. But they're kidnapped and taken to the moon by a witch.
08 August 1926
Farmer Al Falfa is the proprietor of a lunchroom, and Thomas Cat and Milton Mouse (and his little mice friends) all help Al.
17 March 1926
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation.
04 July 1926
Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex.
24 March 1926
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied.
06 December 1926
Frequently cited as one of the first war films to feature the female angle, “Corporate Kate” is the story of a pair of Brooklyn manicurists who go to France during WWI to entertain the troops with a song-and-dance act.
26 February 1926
"Hurricane" Jack Foster is a smuggler who ignores his wife and child in order to pursue Marguerite Blair, the unhappy wife of the Chief Ranger of the North West Mounted Police.
08 August 1926
Richard Castleman, master of Winnecrest Hall in Louisiana, goes on a sea voyage recommended by his cousin and physician, Harry Chilton, who thereupon begins romancing Castleman's fiancée, Jeanne Lamont.
27 September 1926
Niilo, a son of a rich estate owner, is in love with a poor crofter's adopted daughter Heleena. However, on his father's orders, Niilo instead becomes engaged to Loviisa, a daughter of a wealthy landowner.
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