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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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:
14 March 1926
Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.
05 August 1926
Anna Case sings a song while the Cansino family dances in the background.
23 January 1926
Re-enactment of the marriage of Catherine Howard to Henry VIII and her final fate.
26 December 1926
Chester Binney, a wounded war veteran, erroneously believes he is carrying a silver plate in his head and must avoid all excitement.
07 February 1926
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
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.
14 November 1926
Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New York City's theatrical and political life during prohibition and the jazz-age.
25 July 1926
While Pop Morton, a rancher, is being sworn in as deputy sheriff, his daughter Molly, to escape the unwelcome attentions of usurer Blair Hatley (who holds the mortgage on their ranch), meets Art Downs.
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.
06 August 1926
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death.
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