“DOWN THE STRETCH”
COMING TO EVERYBODY’S There is more drama enacted behind the grandstand than before it, and that is the drama which goes to make “Down the Stretch,’’ the Universal Jewel production, which will be shown at Everybody’s on Thursday. Not
that King Baggot has not provided a thrilling horserace picturisation of Gerald Beaumon't last story of the turf, for ho has. but it is in the human drama that takes place out of sight of the payng public that “Down the Stretch’"
s rich and different.
Jockeys are not always whipping Iheir horses across the finish line as winners, nor do they wear their blight silks to dinner. The little fellows who ride the big thoroughbreds have hearts and troubles and joys the same as those who crowd the stands on Derby Day. Gerald Beaumont, the greatest master of sporting stories the ■world has known, penned a gripping story of just these moments in “Down the Stretch,” and King Baggot faithfully depicted it on the screen. The east, one of the strongest ever assembled by Universal, is headed by those two sterling young players Marian Nixon and Robert Agnew, and includes Ward Crane, Ena Gregory, Ben Hall, Jack Daugherty, Virginia True Boardman. and Lincoln Plummer.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 16
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