Released:
1939-01-06

Overview:
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.

Director:
Charles Lamont

Runtime:
1h 9min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Gordon Jones
  as
  Jeff Clayton
• 
  Marsha Hunt
  as
  Martha Sharon
• 
  Harry Davenport
  as
  Henry Sharon
• 
  C. Henry Gordon
  as
  Lew Ralston
• 
  George Meeker
  as
  Dell Baker