Thoroughbred

This independent Canadian production has only one thing going for it: Toby Wing. She's the daughter of a hamburger stand owner who's mixed up in the rackets (don't eat the burgers! There's notes under the meat!!!). Toby's got a veritable idiot for a boyfriend (Kenne Duncan) who can't hold down a job as a racetrack reporter but wins a race horse in a crap game and more or less winds up living in the stables himself. There's one great scene where Toby and her boyfriend get their wires mixed up (thanks to a confused stereotypical black kid... the producer couldn't apparently get a better actor like 'Farina' Hoskins) and she has to fend off various advances by guys while standing at the wrong street corner (actually it looks more like a field with a street sign plastered in the middle of it). This is significant in that it was one of Toby's few true starring roles. She's an absolute knockout... it's a shame that this beautiful lady wasn't given more opportunities to really act. Aside from her, this is strictly a grade-Z curio that shows how far a Depression era Canadian dollar could be stretched when making a movie.