Silks and Saddles

Dec 14, 1936

1h 3m

★ 6.0

THE FASTEST, FUNNIEST, RACING PICTURE YOU'VE EVER SEEN!

Overview

College student Jimmy Shaw inherits a racehorse, named Lightning Lad, and sells stock to fellow students in order to obtain funds for racing the horse. Lightning Lad wins very race he is entered in. Marion Braddock, a spoiled rich girl who owns a racing stable offers to buy Lightning Lad, but Jimmy refuses to sell. The day of the big handicap-race arrives and Jimmy and his fellow stockholders are on their way to the track. But a group of gamblers, betting on Lightning Lad to lose, have some skullduggery plans to ensure Lightning Lad does not win the race.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Victory Pictures Corporation

Silks and Saddles Trailers

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Cast

Jimmy Shay

Bruce Bennett

Marion Braddock / Jane Smith

Toby Wing

Bottsie Botsworth

Fuzzy Knight

Aunt Agatha Braddock

Trixie Friganza

Les Winters

Frank Melton

T. Midge Connolly

Robert McClung

Les Winters' Date

Bess Flowers

Trainer

Roy Thompson

Henchman

Roger Williams

Gambler

William Buchanan

Lightning Lad

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