Kentucky Blue Streak

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Kentucky Blue Streak
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Directed by Raymond K. Johnson
Written by Rose Gordon
Edward O'Brien
Homer King Gordon
Produced by C.C. Burr
Starring Edward J. Nugent
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Cornelius Keefe
Cinematography Irvin Akers
Edited by Tony Martinelli
Music by Ben Carter
Lee Zahler
Production
company
C.C. Burr Productions
Distributed by Puritan Pictures
Release date
  • May 1, 1935 (1935-05-01)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Kentucky Blue Streak is a 1935 American film directed by Raymond K. Johnson and starring Edward J. Nugent, Frank Coghlan Jr. and Cornelius Keefe. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Vin Taylor.

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It was released in the United Kingdom under the alternative title The Blue Streak.

Synopsis

A financially-troubled Kentucky horseracing family is threatened with disgrace when the jockey brother agrees to throw a race in San Francisco and then gets mixed in a murder investigation. Meanwhile his sister plans to enter her horse in the Kentucky Derby. Her brother escapes from jail in order to ride it to victory.

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References

  1. Pitts p.290

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