Boots Malone

Opening sequence introducing William Holden as the title character, a hard-luck jockey's agent, shacking up at the track, with friend Preacher (Basil Ruysdael) then visited by gangster and creditor Matson (Hugh Sanders), in the little-noticed Columbia race-track drama Boots Malone, 1952.

Cynical race-game veterans living at the track, William Holden (title character, a jockey's agent), and Stanley Clements (as ex-jockey "Stash"), pull a ruse on new arrival Tommy (Johnny Stewart), who has a hundred dollar bill for which he can't get change, in Boots Malone, 1952.

Opening day at a California horse-race track, jockey's agent William Holden (title character), despite having fallen on hard times himself, is called upon to eulogize his late client, to whom a statue is being dedicated, later visiting with the widow (Ann Lee), in Boots Malone, 1952.