''Riders Up'' is a 1924 American silent

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directed by

Irving Cummings Irving Caminsky (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor and director. Career Born in New York City, Cummings started his acting career at age 16 in ''Diplomacy (play), Diplomacy''. His Broadway theatre, Broadway, p ...

and starring

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, George Cooper, and Kate Price.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Riders Up''
at silentera.com

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Johnny is a racehorse track tout, but has concealed this fact from his respectable

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family. Norah Ryan, the daughter of the woman who runs the boarding house where he stays, is his sweetheart. He makes a big winning by gambling on a long shot racehorse at the track in

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and determines to take a long-threatened visit home. However, having taken his aged friend Jeff to the track, and persuaded him that the horse Wildflower, upon whom Jeff has staked all his savings, has won, Johnny sacrifices his winnings to make good on the statement. When things look most gloomy, Norah's mother intervenes and enables Johnny to take the young woman home as his wife.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1924 films 1924 drama films American silent feature films American horse racing films American sports drama films 1920s sports drama films Films directed by Irving Cummings American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films Films set in Tijuana 1920s American films Silent American drama films Silent sports drama films {{1920s-US-film-stub