''This Sporting Age'' is a 1932 American

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drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Andrew Bennison Andrew Bennison (November 3, 1886–January 7, 1942, in Oakland, California) was an American screenwriter and film director whose career was at its peak in the 1930s. Bennison was nearly entirely a screenwriter between 1923 and 1942 involved in ...

and

A.F. Erickson AF, af, Af, etc. may refer to: Arts and entertainment *A-F Records, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *''Almost Family'', US TV series Businesses and organizations European * ÅF, a Swedish technical consulting company * AF Gruppen, a construction compan ...

and starring Jack Holt,

Evalyn Knapp Evalyn Knapp (born Evelyn Pauline Knapp; June 17, 1906 – June 12, 1981) was an American film actress of the late 1920s, 1930s and into the 1940s. She was a leading B-movies, B-movie Serial (film), serial actress in the 1930s. She was the you ...

and Walter Byron.Dooley p.540

Plot

A top

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's daughter is in love with a worthy young man, but is compromised by a caddish club member. Her father challenges him to a match at the end of which the villain ends up dead.

Cast

* Jack Holt as Capt. John Steele *

as Mickey Steele *

Hardie Albright Hardie Hunter Albright (born Hardie Hunter Albrecht; December 16, 1903 – December 7, 1975) was an American actor. Early years Albright was born Hardie Hunter Albrecht on December 16, 1903, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to traveling vaudeville ...

as Johnny Raeburn * Walter Byron as Charles Morrell * J. Farrell MacDonald as Jerry O'Day * Ruth Weston as Mrs. Rita Duncan *

Nora Lane Nora Lane (September 12, 1905 – October 16, 1948) was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1927 and 1944. Lane was born in Chester, Illinois. She and her family moved to St. Louis when she was 10 years old. ...

as Mrs. Wainleigh * Shirley Palmer as Ann Erskine *

Hal Price Harry Franklin "Hal" Price (June 24, 1886 – April 15, 1964) was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1930 and 1952. He is the father of character actress and comedian Lu Leonard. On stage, Price ...

as Surgeon

References

Bibliography

* Dooley, Roger. ''From Scarface to Scarlett: American Films in the 1930s''. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

External links

* 1932 films 1930s sports drama films 1930s English-language films American sports drama films Columbia Pictures films American black-and-white films Polo films 1930s American films English-language sports drama films {{sports-film-stub