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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08 December 1937
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01 August 1928
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In 1915 San Diego hired "rainmaker" Charles Hatfield to relieve a four-year drought. After he set to work with his 23 secret chemicals the skies opened and ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1926:
10 January 1926
Don Sebastian, Portuguese Premier, sets a price on the head of royalist Ricardo Madons. Madons is in love with actress Lola Montez, whom Sebastian also adores.
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.
07 February 1926
Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the daughter of an Oregon rancher.
25 October 1926
Peter Verdy falls in love with Lola (Ossi Oswalda) who is mistaken for a boy when she appears in stage regalia before a rich uncle who has other marriage plans for his nephew.
24 January 1926
Dennis Terhune, ranch foreman for John Morgan, an eastern capitalist, discovers that there is oil on Morgan's ranch shortly after Morgan has deeded the ranch to Daley, western manager for the Morgan properties.
14 November 1926
Jerry flirts with a young miss whose parents are fighting for her custody in a divorce court. Jerry settles the argument by inviting the lady out for a ride in his speed bus with dog power.
01 January 1926
The naval officer Maurice de Vergnes, tired of the extravagance of his fiancée Moussia, finds with pleasure a childhood friend: Anna.
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.
23 January 1926
Re-enactment of the marriage of Catherine Howard to Henry VIII and her final fate.
14 June 1926
Hal Whitney, an irresponsible young millionaire, befriends Timothy Payne, a wise old college professor whose life had been ruined by alcohol.
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