The Homestretch
United States
1947
99 Min
Color
1.37:1
English
Synopsis
A film that qualifies as a Travelogue Documentary in that it contains footage of world-famous race tracks such as England’s Ascot, Palermo in South America, and Churchill Downs, Jamaica, Aqueduct, Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, Belmont, Hialeah, Arlington and Saratoga in the United States, and since it begins in London in 1938, the Coronation of the King. Jock Wallace, an easy-going and rootless horse lover, is taken to task by Leslie Hale, who thinks he has swindled her Aunt Helen on the purchase of a horse. He finds out that she is engaged to Bill Van Dyke, a young diplomat, and follows her to London , entering the horse he acquired from Aunt Helen in the famed Ascot Gold Cup. Jock and Leslie fall in love and are married on a boat to South America. In Buenos Aires, Leslie is jealous of Kitty Brant, an old flame of Jock’s. Leslie wants Jock to settle down on his Maryland farm to raise and sell race horses… —IMDb
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Born Nov. 18, 1901 in Buffalo, NY, Died Oct. 11, 1984 of cancer in Motion Picture and Television Country House, CA. One of Hollywood’s most versatile and commercially successful directors, H. Bruce Humberstone began his career as a clerk and sometime actor in the silent film era. He rose to become an assistant to some of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors, including King Vidor, Allan Dwan, Fred Niblo and John Ford before taking over direction of his own films in the early 1930s.
He directed 43 movies and also made several expensive and successful musicals, including “Sun Valley Serenade” with Sonja Henie, “Pin Up Girl” with Betty Grable and “Wonder Man” with Danny Kaye. He directed four Charlie Chan mysteries, two Tarzan pictures, several westerns and World War II movies.
Humberstone made his last movie, “Madison Avenue,” in 1962, but later directed a number of television episodes, including “Daniel Boone,” “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” and “The Smothers Brothers… read more
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