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Riders Up

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Riders Up
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Directed byIrving Cummings
Written byMonte Brice
Produced byCarl Laemmle
StarringCreighton Hale
George Cooper
Kate Price
CinematographyBen F. Reynolds
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • May 5, 1924 (1924-05-05)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Riders Up is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Creighton Hale, George Cooper, and Kate Price.[1][2]

Plot

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As described in a film magazine review,[3] Johnny is a racehorse track tout, but has concealed this fact from his respectable New England 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 Tijuana 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

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References

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  1. ^ Connelly p. 402
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Riders Up at silentera.com
  3. ^ Pardy, George T. (17 May 1924). "Box Office Reviews: Riders Up". Exhibitors Trade Review. New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 31. Retrieved 14 December 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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