The Thoroughbred (1928 film)

1928 film

The Thoroughbred
Directed by	Sidney Morgan
Written by	Sidney Morgan
Produced by	Sidney Morgan
Starring	Ian Hunter Louise Prussing Richard Barclay Harry Agar Lyons
Production company	London Screenplays
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release date	December 1928 (1928-12)
Running time	5,608 feet
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Thoroughbred is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Ian Hunter, Louise Prussing and Richard Barclay. It was made at Twickenham Studios. The screenplay concerns a jockey who is pressured to throw The Derby.

Premise

The wife of a Member of Parliament pressures a jockey to throw The Derby.

Low p.463
British Film Institute. "The Thoroughbred | BFI | British Film Institute". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.

Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

v t e The films of Sidney Morgan
The Brass Bottle (1914) The World's Desire (1915) Iron Justice (1915) Light (1915) Our Boys (1915) What's Bred... Comes Out in the Flesh (1916) The Stolen Sacrifice (1916) The Charlatan (1916) Auld Lang Syne (1917) A Bid for Fortune (1917) Drink (1917) Derelicts (1917) Democracy (1918) Because (1918) Sweet and Twenty (1919) All Men Are Liars (1919) After Many Days (1919) Two Little Wooden Shoes (1920) The Woman of the Iron Bracelets (1920) The Scarlet Wooing (1920) The Children of Gibeon (1920) The Black Sheep (1920) Little Dorrit (1920) Lady Noggs (1920) By Berwin Banks (1920) A Man's Shadow (1920) Moth and Rust (1921) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1921) The Lilac Sunbonnet (1922) Fires of Innocence (1922) A Lowland Cinderella (1922) The Woman Who Obeyed (1923) Shadow of Egypt (1924) Miriam Rozella (1924) Bulldog Drummond's Third Round (1925) A Murderous Girl (1927) The Thoroughbred (1928) A Window in Piccadilly (1928) Her Reputation (1931) Contraband Love (1931) Mixed Doubles (1933) Chelsea Life (1933) Faces (1934) The Minstrel Boy (1937)

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