The Long Shot
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
- Year: 1939
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Grand National Pictures, Franklyn Warner Productions
- Keyword: race track
- Director: Charles Lamont
- Cast: Gordon Jones, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport, C. Henry Gordon, George Meeker, George E. Stone