The Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred

1925 · 63 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy, Romance

Bob Beemis comes to New York City hoping to get his family entrenched in the high-society circuit, but only succeeds in making friends with one person in the social whirl, Archie de Rennsaler. They party with a couple of chorus girls and Bob falls in love with one of them. His uncle arrives from the West to check out his progress, finds there has been none, and closes out his bank account. What's a poor rich-boy do do? Well, he could enter his horse in a really, really Big Race.

Directed by Oscar Apfel · Written by Leete Renick Brown

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Macklyn Arbuckle Peter Bemis
Theodore von Eltz Robert Bemis
Gladys Hulette Mitzi Callahan
Hallam Cooley Dan Drummond
Virginia Brown Faire Gwen Vandermere
Carter DeHaven Archie de Rennsaler
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Brower
Edith Yorke
Lillian Langdon

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