The Calendar – 1948 | 79 mins | Drama | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Set against the backdrop of the horse-racing world, Gainsborough Pictures tepid melodrama The Calendar is based on a play by popular mystery writer Edgar Wallace and was previously filmed by T. Hayes Hunter in 1931.

Impoverished Captain Garry Anson (John McCallum) is a most likeable fellow, but Wenda (Greta Gynt), to whom he is engaged, breaks off the marriage when he loses his money at racing, and decides to marry instead Lord Willie Panniford (Raymond Lovell), whose sister Mollie (Sonia Holm) trains Garry’s horses. Garry, in a drunken and despairing mood, agrees to his valet’s suggestion that he should ` pull ‘ the horse he has entered for the Coronation Cup, so that he will get a better price for it in the Ascot Gold Cup race. He sends a message to Wenda telling her not to back the horse.

The jealous Lord Willie intercepts this message and takes it to the Jockey Club stewards.

Recovering from his drinking bout, Garry tries also to recover his integrity. He sends a second message to Wenda, scrawled on the back of a banknote, saying he has changed his mind. Wenda denies having received the message, and Garry is warned off the racecourse. Just before the big race, however, Wenda is tricked into signing an admission .that Garry is innocent. In a thrilling neck-to-neck finish, his horse wins the Gold Cup – and Garry and Mollie decide to change their owner-trainer association into a man-and-wife partnership.