Thoroughbreds Don't Cry "Bags & Backpacks" Gambler-on-the-run James Wylie (Dennis Morgan)

Gambler-on-the-run James Wylie (Dennis Morgan) knows a good deal when he sees one

It is the Thirteenth Century

the mistress of Maximus

a Roman officer whose duty in the Empire's eastern territory leads him to discover he is the son of the renowned slave hero

Despite losing all that they had at the roulette table

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry "Bags & Backpacks" Gambler-on-the-run James Wylie (Dennis Morgan)The horse racing tale Thoroughbreds Don't Cry marks the first of eight screen pairings (plus two variety act films) of Hollywood legends Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Rooney plays a swell headed top jockey pressured by his disreputable pop to throw a race so that the ol' man can cash in at the window. Garland is a singing cutie who knows her way around the paddock because she lives at a boarding house for jockeys run by her aunt (a delightful Sophie