Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), The Last Victory (2004), A Day at the Races (1937), Seabiscuit (2003), National Velvet (1944), Phar Lap (1983), The Black Stallion (1979), Ride Like a Girl (2019) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jockey movies.
Storyline: A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
Plot Keywords: champion, jockey, mother, gutsy, passionate, inspiring, stable ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. When a young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race, the plot breaks into a speeding gallop. Donovan is disqualified from racing, but Cricket springs into action and heads into the home stretch riding high!—Shawn Ashley
Plot Keywords: jockey, niece, horse owner, young boy, uncle, gambler, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Norman Hackett (Norman Wisdom) works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over one hundred years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over sixteen thousand pounds sterling and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race. What can be done?—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: assistant, love interest, bookie, secretary, partner, jockey, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit, and fights to convince the horse's owner that the tiny horse with big knees will become a top-notch racehorse. Meanwhile, Margaret begins a tentative relationship with jockey Ted Knowles, but is haunted by her brother's death in a steeplechase spill.—Ray Hamel
Plot Keywords: horse, young girl, horse trainer, jockey, uncle, love interest, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An expatriate American living in Madrid, former Air Force pilot Lloyd Tredman (Robert Taylor) is haunted by his memories of the Korean War and refuses to fly. So when he loses his last dollar on a horse race fixed by a smuggler, he forces himself to accept a $25,000 offer to transport a box of contraband currency from Egypt to Spain. But as Tredman makes the return flight home, he discovers his cargo also includes heroin as he races across the Mediterranean with Interpol hot on his trail.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: pilot, expatriate, wife, nurse, smuggler, jockey, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. Mason is a salesman at Detridge & Frome who wants to advertise their line of riding clothes. Since they have the rights to famous jockey Peter Randall, who is in Australia, Peter will impersonate him at the Steeple Chase. At the event, he is invited to a party by Cora and sees young Ellen. Since all Ellen and Peter have in common is horses, he continues the charade to woo her. But two gamblers named Maxie and Duke, try to make money on the race by fixing him up with the wild 'Jeepers Creepers'. That horse can jump high and run like the wind, but he will only calm down enough to be ridden when Gabriel plays his trumpet.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: salesman, boss, beautiful woman, aunt, fan, jockey, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Harrigan raises orphaned Benny McNeil to be a first-rate jockey, but fails to bridle the lad's healthy ego. When Benny receives too many rebukes for unsportsman-like conduct from the racing commission, Tom decides to sell his contract to Garnet before he, too, is censured. Tom also reasons that, by having Benny with a top outfit, he can manipulate his races and make a fortune on the betting. But Benny, thanks to the humanizing influence of Mr. Garnet, has a different idea....—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>
Plot Keywords: jockey, trainer, bookie, rival, horse breeder, retiree, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Heart problems force Boston cop Pally LaMarr to retire; he's in a funk and his wife Charlotte sends him packing. At Charlotte's insistence, Pally's half-brother Ray pays Pally a visit and suggests he buy a race horse to cheer up. Ray's always playing the angles, and he's got his eye on a horse that's cheap because it's been misdiagnosed. Ray knows the horse is a champion. Before they can win some money, a local mob boss, Frank Finnigan, sees the horse and steals it as payment for the gambling debt of Tony, a local jockey and single parent. Can Pally and Ray get the horse back, get Tony out of hock, and win some moola? What about Charlotte: can Pally let his heart take the lead?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: cop, brother, mobster, jockey, wife, brash, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's (Ian Hogg's) horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from his injuries. His friend Alan York (Scott Antony) suspects the animal was doped by unscrupulous bookies and starts to investigate. He doesn't know how serious his opponents are, and that he's in danger to suffer the same fate as his friend.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: horse owner, widow, jockey, friend, bookie, dark, suspenseful ...
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