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''The Cup Winner'' is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe. It is set against a backdrop of horseracing and the finale involves real footage from the 1911 Melbourne Cup.〔〔Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 27〕 It was also known as ''Doping the Favourite''. ==Synopsis== Richard Avendal is married with a young son. His wife is being blackmailed by a scoundrel who knows the wife's brother is in prison on a serious charge and demands money for his silence. Avendal sees his wife together with the backmailer and believes he has been unfaithful. Avendal divorces his wife and gives away their young baby son to an Italian organ grinder. The Italian places the baby in a training stable where he is found by the stable's owner and adopted into his family. The boy, named Crossie, grows up and becomes a jockey, riding a horse in the Melbourne Cup owned by Richard Avendal. The villain and a comic Jewish bookmaker try to force Crossie to dope the horse but he refuses and rides to victory. The son is reunited with his father via the organ grinder, and Avendal discovers his wife is innocent. The chapter headings were: *'Black mail,' *'A misunderstanding,' *'Jealousy,' *'Divorced,' *'Abandoned,' *'Crossie, the Stable,Boy,' *''Trials for the Melbourne Cup,' *'The Spy,' *'The Cup,' *'The Burning Stables,' *'Doping the Favorite,' *' Tattersall's Club,' *'paying against the Favorite,' *' The race for the Melbourne Cup, I9I1,' *' Crossie rides his father's horse to victory, ' *'The Welsher, ' *'Crossie restored to his' Parents,' *'A happy ending.' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Cup Winner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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