Flying Fifty-Five

Flying Fifty-Five

68 mins | Drama | May 1, 1939

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.

Flying Fifty-Five

68 mins | Drama | May 1, 1939

Flying Fifty-Five
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Producers Victor M. Greene Productions
Original title Flying Fifty-Five
Directors Reginald Denham
Writers Victor M. Greene, Vernon Clancey, Kenneth Horne, Edgar Wallace

Cast

Derrick De Marney

as Bill Urquhart

Nancy Burne

as Stella Barrington

Marius Goring

as Charles Barrington

Peter Gawthorne

as Jonas Urquhart

D.A. Clarke-Smith

as Jacques Gregory

Amy Veness

as Aunt Eliza

Ronald Shiner

as Scrubby Oaks

Billy Bray

as Cheeful

Francesca Bahrle

as Clare

John Miller

as Archie Fortescue