The Calendar

When his favorite horse is put down, owner John McCallum gets drunk. He's almost broke, so he listens to valet Leslie Dwyer, and orders his jockey to throw the race the next day, to put up the odds at his race after that. He sends a telegram to his former fiancée, Greta Gynt, to cancel her bet. The next morning, sober, he reverses all his instructions. His horse comes in second, but the track stewards have his telegram and demand an explanation. Miss Gynt refuses to admit receiving word that it was a drunken jest. The stewards, sympathetic, put McCallum on notice of further investigation and order the horse struck from the day's race. This means that McCallum is broke.

This is an amusing remake of the 1931 movie BACHELOR'S FOLLY, which seems from the description to have been told from the valet's point of view. Racing elements aside, it is a comedy, with Leslie Dwyer giving a fine performance as the ex-convict valet, and everyone liking McCallum very much, except for mercenary Miss Gynt, and stuffed-shirt steward Felix Aylmar. It's an odd take on the sort of upper-class comedy that still seems to be popular in British shows.