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Racetrack is a american film of genre Drama directed by James Cruze released in USA on 25 february 1933 with Leo Carrillo
Racetrack (1933)
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Add to a movie listRacetrack is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama. Horse racing bookmaker Joe Tomasso (Leo Carrillo) becomes involved with homeless waif Jackie Curtis (Junior Coughlan) whose mother abandoned him some years before. Tomasso acts as the young boy's unofficial guardian and agrees to allow him to become a jockey with the stipulation that all his races must be honest ones. Jackie's mother Myra shows up and wants them to be a family again. She becomes upset over her son's involvement in the sport of racing. Tomasso deliberately creates a situation to drive a wedge between himself and Jackie so that the youth will return to his mother.
Actors
Leo Carrillo
(Joe Tomasso)
Kay Hammond
(Myra Curtis)
Frank Coghlan, Jr.
(Jackie Curtis)
Lee Moran
(Horseface)
Huntley Gordon
(Attorney)
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