
- Country: USA
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1926-02-28
- Director: James P. Hogan
- Writers: J. Grubb Alexander , John C. Brownell , Louis Joseph Vance
- Language: None
- Stars: George Irving , Patsy Ruth Miller , Kenneth Harlan , Alan Roscoe , Kathleen Kirkham
- Runtime: 70 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: The King of the Turf , O Rei do Turfe (Brazil) , The King of the Turf (United States of America)
- Plot: Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail. Selsby soon dies of apoplexy, first dictating a confession to exonerate Fairfax; Selsby's wife is afraid of scandal, however, and places the confession in a wall safe. Time passes. The colonel serves out his sentence and returns home in the company of four friends he has made in prison: John Doe Smit, Red Kelly, Soup Conley, and Dude Morlanti. Selsby's son, Tom, who is infatuated with the colonel's daughter, Kate, offers to give her his father's confession if she will marry him. Smith overhears this remark and with the help of his former cellmates recovers the confession. The colonel's name is cleared, and his horse, entered in an important race, wins a gold cup. Kate and John Doe get along just fine.
- IMDB:tt0017031


The King of the Turf Cast · · · ALL

James P. Hogan
Director

George Irving
Colonel Fairfax

Patsy Ruth Miller
Kate Fairfax

Kenneth Harlan
John Doe Smith
Alan Roscoe
Tom Selsby

Kathleen Kirkham
Letitia Selsby

Mary Carr
Martha Fairfax

David Torrence
(1864–1951)
Martyn Selsby
David Kirby
Red Kelly

Billy Franey
Soup Conley

Eddie Phillips
Dude Morlanti