| His Last Race | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Reeves Eason Howard Mitchell |
| Produced by | Phil Goldstone |
| Starring | Pauline Starke Noah Beery Snowy Baker |
| Cinematography | Jackson Rose |
Production company | Phil Goldstone Productions |
Release date | August
|
Running time | 5,800 feet [1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
His Last Race is a 1923 American film starring Australian actor Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker. It was billed as a "thrill-o-drama" with a story written around action scenes. [2]
A horse is about to take its last race. Gangsters try to ensure the horse does not win. [3]
Charles Chauvel worked on the film. [4]
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Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker was an Australian athlete, sports promoter, and actor. Born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Baker excelled at a number of sports, winning New South Wales swimming and boxing championships while still a teenager. Playing rugby union for Eastern Suburbs, he played several games for New South Wales against Queensland, and in 1904 represented Australia in two Test matches against Great Britain. At the 1908 London Olympics, Baker represented Australasia in swimming and diving, as well as taking part in the middleweight boxing event, in which he won a silver medal. He also excelled in horsemanship, water polo, running, rowing and cricket. However, "His stature as an athlete depends largely upon the enormous range rather than the outstanding excellence of his activities; it was as an entrepreneur-showman, publicist and businessman that he seems in retrospect to have been most important."
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