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The Derby Winner (1915)

The Derby Winner poster
Directed by
Harold M. Shaw
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is involved in horse racing and family tensions. The story follows her struggles and relationships connected to a big race.

old-fashionedquietslow-pacedearneststraightforwardmelodramaticnostalgic

What happens

The Derby Winner is a 1915 British silent sports drama film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Edna Flugrath, Gerald Ames and Mary Dibley. It is an adaptation of an 1895 play The Derby Winner by Henry Hamilton, Augustus Harris and Cecil Raleigh (which was retitled as The Sporting Duchess in the United States). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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