Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
hotel room
banker
widow
fistfight
wager
singing
horse racing
rainstorm
courtship
christmas
horse trader
racist stereotype
honest
brother sister relationship
rural
deacon
period piece
small town life
1890s