Kentucky Blue Streak
1935 American film
- May 1, 1935 (1935-05-01)
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Kentucky Blue Streak is a 1935 American film directed by Raymond K. Johnson and starring Edward J. Nugent, Frank Coghlan Jr. and Cornelius Keefe.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Vin Taylor.
It was released in the United Kingdom under the alternative title The Blue Streak.
Plot
A financially-troubled Kentucky horseracing family is threatened with disgrace when the jockey brother agrees to throw a race in San Francisco and then gets mixed in a murder investigation. Meanwhile, his sister plans to enter her horse in the Kentucky Derby. Her brother escapes from jail in order to ride it to victory.
Cast
- Edward J. Nugent as Martin Marion
- Frank Coghlan Jr. as Johnny Bradley
- Patricia Scott as Mary Bradley
- Cornelius Keefe as District Attorney Barton Pierce
- Margaret Mann as Mrs. Martha Bradley
- Roy D'Arcy as Harry Johnson
- Ben Holmes as Bellhop O'Donnell
- Roy Watson as Colonel Seymour
- Harry Harvey as Barker/Voice of Radio Announcer
- Roger Williams as Deputy
- Joseph W. Girard as Warden Carlson
- Walter Downing as Editor
- Ben Carter as Waiter/Colored Octette leader
- Jack Cheatham as Cop at Race Track
References
- ^ Pitts p.290
Bibliography
- Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
- Kentucky Blue Streak at IMDb
- Kentucky Blue Streak is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Raymond K. Johnson
- North of Nome (1925)
- All Faces West (1929)
- Kentucky Blue Streak (1935)
- Skybound (1935)
- Suicide Squad (1935)
- The Reckless Way (1936)
- I'll Name the Murderer (1936)
- Special Agent K-7 (1937)
- Daughter of the Tong (1939)
- Code of the Fearless (1939)
- Fangs of the Wild (1939)
- Two Gun Troubador (1939)
- In Old Montana (1939)
- Law of the Wolf (1939)
- Ridin' the Trail (1940)
- Covered Wagon Trails (1940)
- Pinto Canyon (1940)
- Land of the Six Guns (1940)
- The Kid from Santa Fe (1940)
- Riders from Nowhere (1940)
- Wild Horse Range (1940)
- The Cheyenne Kid (1940)
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