Movies and TvShows featuring "racetrack-tout" theme.

In Angels Over Broadway, a playwright and a con man scheme to save a good-bad girl from her crooked business partner. The story takes place in a greasy spoon cafe and explores themes of infidelity, remorse, and deception. As the plot unfolds, the characters find themselves in a series of mean streets, pawn shops, and skid row hotels, facing violence and comeuppance. With the help of a fake angel, they navigate through the night club scene, encountering night people and a night court judge. The film features a captivating song and a racetrack tout. Ultimately, the characters learn that in Broadway, nothing is as it seems.

After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.

In 'The Fat Man', a private detective is hired to investigate a murder that occurs during a cross-country manhunt. As he delves deeper into the case, he unravels a web of deception and violence, discovering unexpected connections along the way. With his wit and determination, the detective navigates through the world of gangsters, racetracks, and gourmet dining to solve the mystery. Will he be able to uncover the truth before it's too late?

A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.

Playing the Ponies is a slapstick comedy set in 1930s California. It follows a cafe owner who gets involved in a scheme with a con man to deceive a gambler at a racetrack. However, their plan goes awry, leading to reprisal and a chance for redemption. The movie is filled with comedic situations, violence, and vindication.

The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.

After her father's funeral, Joan becomes entangled in a gambling syndicate, leading to deception, marital infidelity, and a high-stakes game of chance.

A crooked jockey tries to reform.

Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.

Always-broke racetrack tout shows his true colors when setting up an apartment for his girl friend.

Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.

With Maggie laid low with sneezing fits, Jiggs spends his time listening to radio trivia contests. Maggie, an inveterate social climber, wants to join the prestigious Northchester Hunt Club, and sends them a check for the $38,000 membership fee. When Jiggs finds out, he manages--after a struggle with Maggie--to take care of the check. Consoling himself at his favorite bar, he's convinced by his drinking buddies that the way to make up with Maggie is to buy her a racehorse that is coming up for auction. He does, only to discover that a doctor has told Maggie that her sneezing fits are due to a rare allergy she has--to horses. Complications ensue.