The Rainmaker

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The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.

Released: May 10, 1926

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Georgia Hale

Nell Wendell

William Collier Jr.

Bobby Robertson

Ernest Torrence

Mike

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