The Sporting Lover

The Sporting Lover
Directed by	Alan Hale
Written by	Carey Wilson Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Based on	Good Luck by Ian Hay
Produced by	Edward Small E.M. Asher
Starring	Conway Tearle Barbara Bedford Ward Crane
Cinematography	Faxon M. Dean Robert Newhard
Edited by	Edward M. Roskam
Production company	Faultless Pictures
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	June 17, 1926 (1926-06-17) (New York)[1]
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Sporting Lover is a 1926 American silent sports romance film directed by Alan Hale and starring Conway Tearle, Barbara Bedford and Ward Crane.[2][3] It was based on the British play Good Luck by Ian Hay.

Plot

During the 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 The Derby horse race.[4]

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 as Lady Gwendolyn
• Ward Crane as Captain Sir Phillip Barton
• Arthur Rankin as Algernon Cravens
• Charles McHugh as Paddy O'Brien – Connaughton's Servant
• Johnny Fox as Aloysius Patrick O'Brien – Paddy's Son
• Bodil Rosing as Nora O'Brien
• George Ovey as Jockey

References

1. "The Sporting Lover". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
2. BFI.org film record
3. "Thrills at Ambassador". The Washington Post. July 4, 1926. p. F2.
4. ""The Sporting Lover."". The Advertiser. Adelaide. December 9, 1926. p. 9. Retrieved June 15, 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

• The Sporting Lover at IMDb
• The Sporting Lover at TCMDB