In Old Kentucky
Cast & Crew
Marshall Neilan
Anita Stewart
Mahlon Hamilton
Edward Coxen
Charles Arling
Edward Connolly
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Synopsis
Illiterate Blue Ridge Mountain girl Madge Brierly falls in love with vacationing Blue Grass aristocrat Frank Layson, when he stops Horace Holten from defrauding her of her coal-rich lands. For revenge, Holten tells moonshiner Joe Lorey, who loves Madge, that Frank is a revenue officer. After Madge rescues Frank from Joe's attack, they go to Frank's home, where he teaches her reading and writing, and she rescues his racehorse, Queen Bess, from a fire set by Holten. Because Frank has nearly all of his family's money riding on the big Kentucky race, Holten gets Frank's jockey drunk. Madge, discovering this, disguises herself and rides Queen Bess to victory. She leaves for home unnoticed, and comes across the Night Riders chasing Lorey. After she persuades them that Holten killed her father years earlier, and was responsible for Lorey's attack, they chase Holten who falls from a mountain and dies. Years later, Madge's and Frank's children play at feuding.
Director
Marshall Neilan
Cast
Anita Stewart
Mahlon Hamilton
Edward Coxen
Charles Arling
Edward Connolly
Adele Farrington
Marcia Manon
Frank Duffy
John Currie
Crew
Film Details
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Scenes for the film were shot at the Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville and at other Kentucky locations. Dazey's play was filmed again in 1927 by M-G-M, with James Murray starring and John M. Stahl directing (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.2688); and in 1935 by Fox, with Will Rogers starring and George Marshall directing.
