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CAST AND STORY OF “SPORTING LIFE”
For Use of Exhibitors in Their House Organs or for General Publicity
A PARAMOUNT-ARTCRAFT SPECIAL PICTURE
Maurice Tourneur’s Great ParamountArtcraft Special Picture, <6Sporting Life 99 is a Screen Classic
Production is a Picturization of the famous Drury Lane Melodrama Which Was All the Rage Twenty Years Ago and Which Deals With Sporting Life in England
Lord woodstock, a
young British sportsman who has inherited a vast entailed estate but little ready money, finds himself in great financial difficulties. He owns a racing stable and among his horses is Lady Love, and convinced that the mare will win the Derby, he stakes all the money he is able to raise, upon the animal. As a preliminary to the race, the Earl also wagers large sums upon Joe Lee, a fighter, who is loved by ■Kitty Cavanagh, daughter of his head trainer.
The Earl loves Norah Cavanagh, a sister of Kitty’s, and he publicly announces their engagement. Malet de Carteret, a man about town, has sworn to ruin the Earl and he prevails upon his wife Olive to enmesh Lee in her coils and t'o cause him to throw the fight. Lee loves Kitty Cavanagh and she has loved him not wisely but too well. When ■Kitty observes that Lee is infatuated with Olive, she runs away to London and jumps into the Thames, but is rescued and taken to a hospital where she is rejoined by Norah and her father.
“SPORTING LIFE”
The Cast
John, Earl of Woodstock
‘'■''"Ralph Grave's Joe Lee Warner Richmond
Miles Cavanagh
Charles Eldridge Malet de Carteret. .Charles Craig
Straker Henry West
Norah Cavanagh/
jto nstapCe Binney Kitty Cavanagh. LrHJair Binney
Olive de Carteret
Willette Kershaw
Meanwhile, Olive and her husband scheme to dope Lee just before he enters the ring. They inform Cavanagh of Lee’s conduct toward Kitty and the aged mail consents to give doped liquor to Lee. The dose is too strong however and Lee collapses just as he steps into the ring. Lord Woodstock prevents an adverse decision on his bets by entering the ring himself and after a gruelling battle, he knocks out his adversary and wins the fight, and, incidentally, pockets thousands of pounds wagered by de Carteret.
De Carteret in revenge plans to steal Lady Love and prevent Earl Woodstock from entering" her in the Derby. There is a skillful substitution of horses in a London fog and Lady Love is hidden in a basement. Norah learns of the incident and with the aid of a jockey succeeds in rescuing the animal. Meanwhile, Lord AYoodstock has been enticed to a gypsy camp where he is overpowered by de Carteret’s agents and carried a prisoner to an old ferry boat.
After vainly attempting to strangle Olive for her perfidy, Lee is seized with remorse and he recues Lord Woodstock after a fierce fight with thugs. They motor to Epsom at breakneck speed where, meanwhile, Norah is vainly seeking to have Lady Love entered for the Derby. De Carteret spreads .the report that Lord Woodstock is dead and he makes heavy wagers. But the Earl appears just as the horses line up for the race, enters Lady Love and is rewarded with success when Lady Love wins and nets him a big fortune.
The Earl and Norah are happily married while Lee makes amends to Kitty. De Carteret is ruined and Lord Woodstock refuses to prosecute the man and his wife for their criminality.
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