The Sporting Lover

{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Sporting Lover | image = File:The Sporting Lover.jpg | caption = | director = [[Alan Hale, Sr.|Alan Hale]] | producer = [[Edward Small]] E.M. Asher | writer = [[Carey Wilson (writer)|Carey Wilson]] [[Malcolm Stuart Boylan]] | based_on = ''[[Good Luck (play)|Good Luck]]'' by [[Ian Hay]] | starring = [[Conway Tearle]] [[Barbara Bedford (actress)|Barbara Bedford]] [[Ward Crane]] | music = | cinematography = [[Faxon M. Dean]] [[Robert Newhard]] | editing = Edward M. Roskam | studio = Faultless Pictures | distributor = [[First National Pictures]] | released = {{Film date|1926|06|17|New York|ref1=<ref name="AFI">{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12367 |title=The Sporting Lover |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref>}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States | language = [[Silent Movie|Silent]] (English [[intertitle]]s) | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Sporting Lover''''' is a 1926 American [[silent film|silent]] [[sports film|sports]] [[romance film]] directed by [[Alan Hale, Sr.|Alan Hale]] and starring [[Conway Tearle]], [[Barbara Bedford (actress)|Barbara Bedford]] and [[Ward Crane]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090527180814/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/52388 BFI.org film record]</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Thrills at Ambassador|work=The Washington Post|date=July 4, 1926|page=F2}}</ref> It was based on the British play ''[[Good Luck (play)|Good Luck]]'' by [[Ian Hay]].

==Plot== During the [[World War I|First World War]] an American officer and a British aristocrat fall in love but are separated. After the war he returns to find her engaged to another man. The issue is settled by a bet on [[Epsom Derby|The Derby]] horse race.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73641022 |title="The Sporting Lover." |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |location=Adelaide |date=December 9, 1926 |access-date=June 15, 2013 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens. The next day he is wounded and taken to a military hospital where he meets and falls in love with Lady Gwendolyn. After an attack on the hospital Captain Terrence and Lady Gwen are separated for a while until the end of the war, where Terrance returns home without anything. To Captain Terrences surprise, Cravens, has made Lady Gwen promise to marry him and has entered the horses he won from Terrance in the National Derby. Terrance goes to London to attend the Derby and sees Lady Gwen again. The importance of the derby is ultimately based on who Lady Gwen can be with.

==Cast== * [[Conway Tearle]] as Captain Terrance Connaughton * [[Barbara Bedford (actress)|Barbara Bedford]] as Lady Gwendolyn * [[Ward Crane]] as Captain Sir Phillip Barton * [[Arthur Rankin (actor)|Arthur Rankin]] as Algernon Cravens * [[Charles McHugh (actor)|Charles McHugh]] as Paddy O'Brien – Connaughton's Servant * [[Johnny Fox (silent film actor)|Johnny Fox]] as Aloysius Patrick O'Brien – Paddy's Son * [[Bodil Rosing]] as Nora O'Brien * [[George Ovey]] as Jockey

==See also== * [[List of films about horses]] * [[List of films about horse racing]]

==References== <references/>

==External links== {{commons category|The Sporting Lover}} *{{IMDb title|0017426}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130608102132/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/500472/The-Sporting-Lover/#credits ''The Sporting Lover''] at [[TCMDB]]

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