Vagabond Luck

Vagabond Luck (1919)

A happy, snappy story of the race tracks, in which a jockey's grit wins a race and a girl.

When jockey Jimmie Driscoll, responsible for making Jim Richardson's horses winners, is fired for being too heavy, he goes to the home of the late Judge Bell, the father of local horse racing. Jimmy is in love with the Judge's daughter Joy, who was left nearly penniless when her father died. Joy's brother Harry writes to her pleading that because he desperately needs money, she should enter the aging Vagabond, the last of the Bell racehorses, in the upcoming annual event. Convinced by crooked bookmaker Spike Bradley that Vagabond will win at twenty-to-one odds, Harry mortgages his half of the house for gambling money. Jimmie discovers that although Vagabond runs horribly on normal turf, she is a "mudder," meaning that she goes into a wild dash on wet ground. After Jimmie and Joy pray for rain, Bradley, learning of Vagabond's condition, threatens the jockey, but Jimmie, riding Vagabond himself in in the rain, wins the race and afterward, Joy's love.

Date of release
1919-11-16
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
50m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Scott R. Dunlap

Casting

Interesting facts

Vagabond Luck is a lost 1919 American silent comedy drama film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Albert Ray, Elinor Fair, Jack Rollens, John Cossar, and William Ryno. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on November 16, 1919.

Production

Vagabond Luck was produced under the working title A Little Prayer for Rain, and the racetrack scenes were shot on location at the California State Fair in Sacramento. Originally, the film was slated to be directed by Jack Dillon, but he "severed ties" with Fox Film before production began.

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