Sporting Blood (1931 film)
1931 film
- August 8, 1931 (1931-08-08)
Running time
Sporting Blood is a 1931 American MGM pre-Code sports drama film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Clark Gable (in his first starring role), Ernest Torrence, and Madge Evans. Two other pictures bore this same title, one released in 1916 by Fox and another by MGM in Sporting Blood (1940). Although they, too, centered on horse racing, none of the plots had any direct connection with the others.
Plot
Gambler Rid Riddell (Clark Gable) works for Tip Scanlon (Lew Cody), a crooked gambler, who buys Tommy-Boy, a racehorse from a wealthy man (Hallam Cooley) whose spoiled wife (Marie Prevost) loses interest. Tip and Rid consistently win with the horse in both honestly and dishonestly run races. But before long, Tommy Boy loses a race he wasn't supposed to, and the mob is after Tip.
Tip is murdered but not before giving Tommy Boy to his girlfriend (Madge Evans) who sets out to rehabilitate herself and the horse. The horse rebounds. After an attempt at sabotage, the horse wins the Kentucky Derby, and Rid wins the girl.
Cast
- Clark Gable as Warren 'Rid' Riddell
- Ernest Torrence as Mr. Jim Rellence
- Madge Evans as Miss 'Missy' Ruby
- Lew Cody as Tip Scanlon
- Marie Prevost as Angela 'Angie' Ludeking
- Hallam Cooley as Bill Ludeking
- J. Farrell MacDonald as MacGuire
- John Larkin as Uncle Ben
- Eugene Jackson as Sammy
Box office
According to MGM records, the film earned $547,000 in the US and Canada and $346,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $148,000.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
External links
- Sporting Blood at IMDb
- Sporting Blood at AllMovie
- Sporting Blood at the TCM Movie Database
- Sporting Blood at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- v
- t
- e
Films directed by Charles Brabin
- What Happened to Mary (1912)
- The Man Who Disappeared (1914)
- The House of the Lost Court (1915)
- Vanity Fair (1915)
- The Raven (1915)
- That Sort (1916)
- The Price of Fame (1916)
- Babette (1917)
- The Sixteenth Wife (1917)
- Mary Jane's Pa (1917)
- The Adopted Son (1917)
- Red, White and Blue Blood (1917)
- Persuasive Peggy (1917)
- Breakers Ahead (1918)
- Social Quicksands (1918)
- A Pair of Cupids (1918)
- His Bonded Wife (1918)
- Buchanan's Wife (1918)
- The Poor Rich Man (1918)
- Thou Shalt Not (1919)
- Kathleen Mavourneen (1919)
- La Belle Russe (1919)
- While New York Sleeps (1920)
- Blind Wives (1920)
- Footfalls (1921)
- The Broadway Peacock (1922)
- The Lights of New York (1922)
- Driven (1923)
- Six Days (1923)
- So Big (1924)
- Ben Hur (1925)
- Stella Maris (1925)
- Mismates (1926)
- Twinkletoes (1926)
- Framed (1927)
- Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927)
- The Valley of the Giants (1927)
- Burning Daylight (1928)
- The Whip (1928)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
- The Ship from Shanghai (1930)
- Call of the Flesh (1930)
- The Great Meadow (1931)
- Sporting Blood (1931)
- The Beast of the City (1932)
- New Morals for Old (1932)
- The Washington Masquerade (1932)
- The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
- Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
- The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)
- Stage Mother (1933)
- Day of Reckoning (1933)
- A Wicked Woman (1934)
 | This 1930s drama film-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
 | This article about a sports-related film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
