An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and,…