A cocky young jockey who gets mixed up with some crooked gamblers befriends an English lad with a fast horse and the niece of a woman who runs a boarding house for jockeys..
Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for the black-and-white era where everyone talks a little too fast and the plots are thinner than a sheet of paper, sure, give it a whirl. It's essentially a vehicle to watch Mickey Rooney be an absolute brat for an hour and a half while Judy Garland keeps the whole thing ...
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for the black-and-white era where everyone talks a little too fast and the plots are thinner than a sheet of paper, sure, give it a whirl. It's essentially a vehicle to watch Mickey Rooney be an absolute brat for an hour and a half while Judy Garland keeps the whole thing from floating away into total nonsense. If you hate old-school sentimentality or get bored by movies that treat horse racing like it’s a high-stakes life-or-death situation every f..."
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