The Sporting Lover is a 1926 American

Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...

 sports romance film

Romance film

Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 directed by Alan Hale

Alan Hale, Sr.

Alan Hale, Sr. was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn. His wife of over thirty years was Gretchen Hartman , a child actress and silent film player and mother of their three children...

 and starring Conway Tearle

Conway Tearle

Conway Tearle was an Anglo-American stage actor who went on to perform in silent and early sound films.-Early life:...

, Barbara Bedford and Ward Crane

Ward Crane

Ward Crane was a silent film actor popular in comedies and dramas. Out of dozens of films he's best remembered as the handsome heavy to Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr. 1924.Crane died at age 38 from pneumonia....

. It was based on the British play Good Luck by Ian Hay. During the First World War an American officer and a British aristocrat fall in love but are separated. After the war he returns to find her engaged to another man. The issue is settled by a bet on The Derby horse race.

Cast

• Conway Tearle
  Conway Tearle
  Conway Tearle was an Anglo-American stage actor who went on to perform in silent and early sound films.-Early life:...
  
   - Captain Terrance Connaughton
• Barbara Bedford - Lady Gwendolyn
• Ward Crane
  Ward Crane
  Ward Crane was a silent film actor popular in comedies and dramas. Out of dozens of films he's best remembered as the handsome heavy to Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr. 1924.Crane died at age 38 from pneumonia....
  
   - Captain Sir Phillip Barton
• Arthur Rankin
  Arthur Rankin
  Arthur Rankin was a surveyor, entrepreneur and political figure in Canada West.He was born in Montreal in 1816, the son of Irish immigrants. He ran away from home and became a cabin boy. In 1835, he returned to Canada, then qualified as a surveyor and moved to the Windsor area. In 1837, he...
  
   - Algernon Cravens
• Charles McHugh
  Charles McHugh
  Charles Stephen McHugh was an Australian politician. Born in South Australia, he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a clerk and an official with the Australian Workers' Union. He served on Thebarton Town Council before being elected to the Australian Senate in 1922 as a Labor Senator...
  
   - Paddy O'Brien - Connaughton's Servant
• Johnny Fox
  Johnny Fox
  Johnny Fox was an Irish independent politician and Teachta Dála for Wicklow. He was a member of the Church of Ireland....
  
   - Aloysius Patrick O'Brien - Paddy's Son
• Bodil Rosing
  Bodil Rosing
  Bodil Rosing was a Danish born American film actress in the silent and sound eras. She made one or two stage appearances on Broadway but in the meantime raised four chidren.-Filmography:* Pretty Ladies...
  
   - Nora O'Brien
• George Ovey
  George Ovey
  George Ovey was an American film actor. He appeared in 207 films between 1915 and 1951. He was born in Trenton, Missouri, and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
  - Jockey