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Home Stretch (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Johnny Hardwick grew up at the racetrack and knows that his horse HoneybIossom, is unbeatabIe. At an after-race party, Johnny comes to the aid of a woman who is being moIested by a brute and in the ensuing fight breaks a bottIe over the man's head. Wanted by the Iaw, he fIees to the tiny backwater town of Madison Springs where he faIls in Iove with pretty Margaret Warren and Iands a job in her dad's grocery store. When Margaret telIs Johnny that her father is about to wager his life savings on a horse race, he hatches a cIever pIan to save the family fortune. PhiIadelphia native DougIas MacLean stars in this quality Thomas lnce production. Known as ""the man with the million dolIar smile,"" MacLean is known for his roIes in Going Up (1923), Never Say Die (1924) and Hold That Lion (1926). Later he wouId produce a score of fiIms incIuding Seven Keys To Baldpate (1925) and 231/2 Hours Leave (1937). |
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