Kentucky Blue Streak is a 1935 American film directed by Raymond K. Johnson and starring Edward J. Nugent, Frank Coghlan Jr. and Cornelius Keefe.Pitts p.290 The film's sets were designed by the art director Vin Taylor.
It was released in the United Kingdom under the alternative title The Blue Streak.
Plot A financially-troubled Kentucky horseracing family is threatened with disgrace when the jockey brother agrees to throw a race in San Francisco and then gets mixed in a murder investigation. Meanwhile, his sister plans to enter her horse in the Kentucky Derby. Her brother escapes from jail in order to ride it to victory.
Cast Edward J. Nugent as Martin Marion Frank Coghlan Jr. as Johnny Bradley Patricia Scott as Mary Bradley Cornelius Keefe as District Attorney Barton Pierce Margaret Mann as Mrs. Martha Bradley Roy D'Arcy as Harry Johnson Ben Holmes as Bellhop O'Donnell Roy Watson as Colonel Seymour Harry Harvey as Barker/Voice of Radio Announcer Roger Williams as Deputy Joseph W. Girard as Warden Carlson Walter Downing as Editor Ben Carter as Waiter/Colored Octette leader Jack Cheatham as Cop at Race Track
See also List of films about horses List of films about horse racing
References
Bibliography Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940. McFarland & Company, 2005.
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