A washed up, alcoholic Vet and a dreamer stable boy help nurse a sick race horse back to health.A washed up, alcoholic Vet and a dreamer stable boy help nurse a sick race horse back to health.A washed up, alcoholic Vet and a dreamer stable boy help nurse a sick race horse back to health.
Pat West
- First Railbird
- (scenes deleted)
Stanley Andrews
- Track Steward
- (uncredited)
King Baggot
- Bettor
- (uncredited)
John Bose
- Stable Hand
- (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
- Choirmaster
- (uncredited)
Jules Cowles
- Singer at Beulah's
- (uncredited)
Charles Dunbar
- Stable Hand with Broom
- (uncredited)
Billy Engle
- Congregation Member
- (uncredited)
Flora Finch
- Singer at Beulah's
- (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
- Poolroom Owner
- (uncredited)
Al Herman
- Mr. Merlin
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe big race was actually the entire 1938 $50,000 Hollywood Gold Cup race won by Seabiscuit.
- GoofsWhen Michael and Doc are by the beach, Doc puts on his left shoe, then puts it on again in the next scene.
- Quotes
Doc Thomas 'Tom' Terry: Shut up! Shut up!
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown over drawings of horses on a racetrack.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990)
- SoundtracksWhen You Wore a Tulip
Music by Percy Wenrich (1924)
Lyrics by Jack Mahoney
Sung by Wallace Beery and others at the songfest
Featured review
Scene Stealers, the greatest in their trade
I agree with the person who wrote that the title Stablemates starring Mickey Rooney and Wallace Beery is all you need to know about this film, it practically tells you what's going to happen. But the reason is because these two stars with their indelible images at the heights of their respective careers explains all. Beery and Rooney are two of the greatest scene stealers of all time in the movies and director Sam Wood must have felt like a referee since a whole lot of the film is just with these two.
Rooney is an orphan kid who hustles a few dollars at the racetrack and Beery is a drunk whose inebriation belies the fact he knows a great deal about the sport of kings. When Rooney gets a horse from Oscar O'Shea that's about to be shipped to the glue factory for failing to live up to his promise, we learn a great deal about Beery. It seems he was a promising veterinarian and he performs a delicate operation that relieves a small tumor on the horse's hoof. After that its Rooney, Beery and the horse three for one and one for three.
Later on we also find out that Beery is wanted on a manslaughter rap and that's the reason he's kept a low and drunken profile for years. Still the two of them have the horse entered in a big stakes race and will they get to achieve their goal.
Stablemates also has a nice performance from Margaret Hamilton a five time widow with whom the two Stablemates take shelter. She'd kind of like to make Beery number six and Wally with some trepidation is ready to go for it. Can't be worse than jail.
The tracks in the California area provide the authentic atmosphere. A lot of the film was shot on the Bay Meadows track area in Burlington, California.
But Stablemates is first and foremost a star vehicle for two very big stars in every sense of the word.
Rooney is an orphan kid who hustles a few dollars at the racetrack and Beery is a drunk whose inebriation belies the fact he knows a great deal about the sport of kings. When Rooney gets a horse from Oscar O'Shea that's about to be shipped to the glue factory for failing to live up to his promise, we learn a great deal about Beery. It seems he was a promising veterinarian and he performs a delicate operation that relieves a small tumor on the horse's hoof. After that its Rooney, Beery and the horse three for one and one for three.
Later on we also find out that Beery is wanted on a manslaughter rap and that's the reason he's kept a low and drunken profile for years. Still the two of them have the horse entered in a big stakes race and will they get to achieve their goal.
Stablemates also has a nice performance from Margaret Hamilton a five time widow with whom the two Stablemates take shelter. She'd kind of like to make Beery number six and Wally with some trepidation is ready to go for it. Can't be worse than jail.
The tracks in the California area provide the authentic atmosphere. A lot of the film was shot on the Bay Meadows track area in Burlington, California.
But Stablemates is first and foremost a star vehicle for two very big stars in every sense of the word.
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- bkoganbing
- May 5, 2011
Details
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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