Silks and Saddles is a 1921 Australian / American film set in the world of horse racing

Horse racing

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 directed by John K. Wells.

The film is also known as Queen o' Turf or Queen of the Turf in the USA.

Plot summary

Bobbie (Agnes Vernon), a squatter's daughter, is torn between rival suitors, and participates in a horse race.

Production

The film is one of the rare Australian movies to survive today almost in it's entirety.

Cast

• Agnes Vernon as Bobbie Morton
• Robert MacKinnon as Richard Morton Jr
• John Cosgrove
  John Cosgrove (actor)
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   as Dennis O'Hara
• John Faulkner
  John Faulkner (actor)
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   as Richard Morton Sr
• Tal Ordell
  Tal Ordell
  Talone Ordell , better known as Tal Ordel, was an Australian actor, writer and director. He worked extensively on stage and screen as an actor in the 1910s and 1920s, playing Dad Rudd twice for Raymond Longford and Dad Hayseed - a similar role - three times for Beaumont Smith. He turned director...
  
   as Phillip Droone
• Evelyn Johnson
  Evelyn Johnson
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   as Myra Fane
• Raymond Lawrence as Jeffrey Manners
• Gerald Harcourt as Toby Makin
• Tommy Denman as Dingo
• Kennaquhair

External links

• Silks and Saddles at National Film and Sound Archive
  National Film and Sound Archive
  The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...