Riders Up
{{short description|1924 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Riders Up
| image = Riders Up (1924) - 1.jpg
| caption = Advertisement
| director = Irving Cummings
| producer = Carl Laemmle
| based_on =
| writer = Monte Brice
| narrator =
| starring = Creighton Hale
George Cooper
Kate Price
| music =
| cinematography = Ben F. Reynolds
| editing =
| studio = Universal Pictures
| distributor = Universal Pictures
| released = {{film date|1924|05|05}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Riders Up is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Creighton Hale, George Cooper, and Kate Price.Connelly p. 402[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RidersUp1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: Riders Up] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: Riders Up |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=31 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=17 May 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n774/mode/1up |accessdate=14 December 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Johnny is a racehorse track tout, but has concealed this fact from his respectable New England family. Norah Ryan, the daughter of the woman who runs the boarding house where he stays, is his sweetheart. He makes a big winning by gambling on a long shot racehorse at the track in Tijuana and determines to take a long-threatened visit home. However, having taken his aged friend Jeff to the track, and persuaded him that the horse Wildflower, upon whom Jeff has staked all his savings, has won, Johnny sacrifices his winnings to make good on the statement. When things look most gloomy, Norah's mother intervenes and enables Johnny to take the young woman home as his wife.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Creighton Hale as Johnny, aka Information Kid
- George Cooper as Henry, the Rat
- Kate Price as Mrs. Ryan
- Robert Brower as General Jeff
- Ethel Shannon as Norah Ryan, The Fiddlin' Doll
- Edith Yorke as Johnny's mother
- Charlotte Stevens as Johnny's sister
- Harry Tracy as Cross-eyed Negro
- Hank Mann as Boarder
}}
References
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Bibliography
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0015276}}
{{Irving Cummings}}
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American horse racing films
Category:1920s sports drama films
Category:Films directed by Irving Cummings
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:Silent American sports drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language sports drama films
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