Vagabond Luck

Story

Synopsis

When jockey Jimmie Driscoll, responsible for making Jim Richardson's horses winners, is fired for being too heavy, he goes to the home of the late Judge Bell, the father of local horse racing. Jimmy is in love with the Judge's daughter Joy, who was left nearly penniless when her father died. Joy's brother Harry writes to her pleading that because he desperately needs money, she should enter the aging Vagabond, the last of the Bell racehorses, in the upcoming annual event. Convinced by crooked bookmaker Spike Bradley that Vagabond will win at twenty-to-one odds, Harry mortgages his half of the house for gambling money. Jimmie discovers that although Vagabond runs horribly on normal turf, she is a "mudder," meaning that she goes into a wild dash on wet ground. After Jimmie and Joy pray for rain, Bradley, learning of Vagabond's condition, threatens the jockey, but Jimmie, riding Vagabond himself in in the rain, wins the race and afterward, Joy's love.

Director

Scott R. Dunlap

Writers

Joseph Anthony Roach, Charles Tenney Jackson, Scott R. Dunlap

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

16 November 1919

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Albert Ray

  Jimmie Driscoll

• 

  Elinor Fair

  Joy Bell

• 

  John Cossar

  Jim Richardson

• 

  Lloyd Bacon

  Buck

• Jack Rollens

  Harry Bell

• William Ryno

  Tunk

• George Millum

  Jumbo

• Al Fremont

  Spike Bradley

• Johnny Reese

  Johnny