The Unwelcome Stranger

Jackie Searl is an orphan with a gimpy leg. He is succored by Mona Barrie, who's married to Jack Holt, a man who came up as an orphan and is now the owner of a good racing stables. He's a hunch investor with a lot of superstitions, especially one about orphans being bad luck, so Jackie being an orphan is kept from him. He thinks there's another jinx keeping him back. He hasn't had a winning bet in a month and is beginning to sell off his horses, even as Jackie shows rapport and ability. Holt's jinx isn't orphans or nailing up horse shoes the wrong way. It's Bradley Page, who takes Holt's bets to spread around the bookies, and then pays off the jockeys and pockets the cash.

It's another of the profitable programmers that Jack Holt starred in throughout the 1930s for Columbia. It's a decent, if run-of-the-mill script with everyone performing their bits well enough. Ralph Morgan, as Holt's stable man, takes the cap for a pleasant and caring performance.