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The Long Shot

The Long Shot

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 6, 1939

Runtime

1h 9m

Genres

Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

The Long Shot

Production Companies

Grand National Pictures, Franklyn Warner Productions

Director

Charles Lamont

Description

A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.