Directed by:
Frank BorzageScreenplay:
Steve FisherCinematography:
Tony GaudioComposer:
Hans J. SalterCast:
Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely, Frankie Darro, John Miljan, James Kirkwood, Ray Walker, Bess Flowers, Dorothy Adams, Liam Dunn (more)Plots(1)
As he is driving cynical sports reporter Willie Wagonstatter to the Hollywood racetrack, where retired champion Gallant Man is attempting a comeback in the Gold Cup race, taxi driver Toby Gleeton relates the story of how he and Gallant Man's owner, Joe Grange, first met: On a rainy Christmas Eve in Hollywood, Toby offers a ride to Joe and his colt, then agrees to drive Ronnie, a soda clerk, to her apartment. The homeless Joe, who earlier that day quit his accounting job and bought the horse, persuades Ronnie to put the animal up for the night. Joe agrees to spend the evening under an awning, but after the colt almost destroys Ronnie's small apartment, she reluctantly allows Joe to sleep on her couch. Joe names the frisky colt Gallant Man and reveals to Ronnie that his longtime dream has been to raise a champion racehorse and "live his heart." Although Ronnie admits that she has been unlucky in love, she tells the soft-spoken Joe that he is an "awfully nice guy." Joe, in turn, is attracted to Ronnie, and a romance soon blossoms. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Don Ameche
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Trading Places (1983)
Midnight (1939)
Catherine McLeod
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Lipstick (1976)
Roscoe Karns
USA
Best movies:
Beggars of Life (1928)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Wings (1927)
John Ridgely
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Frankie Darro
USA
Best movies:
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Westward the Women (1951)
John Miljan
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Juarez (1939)
James Kirkwood
USA
Best movies:
Madame Curie (1943)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
The Nevadan (1950)
Ray Walker
USA
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Dorothy Adams
USA
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The Big Country (1958)
The Killing (1956)
Liam Dunn
USA
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What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Catch-22 (1970)
Dorothy Christy
USA
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Love Is News (1937)
Laura (1944)
Frank Mayo
USA
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Gilda (1946)
William B. Davidson
USA
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Scarface (1932)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Francis McDonald
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Nolan Leary
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
White Heat (1949)
Easter Parade (1948)
Phil Arnold
USA
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The Big Heat (1953)
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Roy Barcroft
USA
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Band of Angels (1957)
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Reed Howes
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Dodge City (1939)
Virginia City (1940)
Bert Moorhouse
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)