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Take A Tip & Stay Away from this Jockey *1/2
3 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
You would think that from the title of this 1957 film, you'd be seeing racetracks and jockeys in abundance. This is not the case as the film turns out to be a rather routine story of smuggling drugs.

Believe it or not, Robert Taylor and his co-star Dorothy Malone sing at the piano.

For a couple that has supposedly divorced, they seem very compatible when together with the exception of one scene.

Martin Gabel plays the heavy in this film and how ironic it is to see him in one scene with Jack Lord. Go know that fate would play such a trick on both men as they later succumbed to Alzheimer's.

The mid to late 1950s was not a good time for Taylor. His young good looks were going and the heavy lines possibly from heavy smoking, which later killed him, were showing. No wonder he switched to television in the 1960s with the highly successful The Detectives.

Marcel Dallio attempts to bring some comic relief to the film, especially when he reverses I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

These films dealing with people having to confront their fears are usually not the best. This is not an exception to that rule.
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