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The Kentucky Derby

5.0 57 mins Action   Adventure   Crime   1922
Universal Film Manufacturing Company  
Director(s): King Baggot

Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to marry Helen to the colonel's son, Donald. The colonel agrees, but Donald balks at the suggestion, then reveals his secret marriage to Alice Brown. The colonel turns them out, and Ralph conspires with Bob Thurston to frame Donald for theft of Colonel Gordon's wager money and to shanghai him. After 3 years Donald discovers the source of his misfortune, returns, finds his wife, hears of a plot against his father's best racehorse, wrings a complete confession from Thurston, and saves the Derby for his repentant father.

Casts of The Kentucky Derby

Reginald Denny

as Donald Gordon

Lillian Rich

as Alice Brown

Emmett King

as Col. Moncrief Gordon

Walter McGrail

as Ralph Gordon

Gertrude Astor

as Helen Gordon

Lionel Belmore

as Col. Rome Woolrich

Bert Woodruff

as Rance Newcombe

Bert Tracy

as Topper Tom

Harry Carter

as Bob Thurston

Wilfred Lucas

as Capt. Wolff

Pat Harmon

as Jensen

Anna Dodge

as Mrs. Clancy

Verne Winter

as Timmy Clancy

Betsy Ann Hisle

as Little Girl (uncredited)

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