The Rainbow Jacket (1954)

An ex-champion jockey (Bill Owen) having forfeited his own career by taking a bribe takes a young rider (Fella Edmonds) under his wing. Directed by Basil Dearden (KHARTOUM). After cats, horses may be my favorite animals. But I'm not a fan of horse racing on ethical grounds and with rare exceptions like NATIONAL VELVET and THE BLACK STALLION, movies about horse racing are a turn off. This one isn't too bad, in fact, it's quite decent but I had problems with the film's three lead characters (the third is Kay Walsh as Edmonds' mother) because their problems were of their own making due to their lack of a moral backbone. It's handsomely shot in Technicolor by Otto Heller (PEEPING TOM). With Robert Morley, Honor Blackman, Wilfrid Hyde White, Sid James and Edward Underdown.