The Rainbow Jacket (PG)
Main Screen, Friday 12 Sep 2025, 17:00
- ends at 18:54
MADE IN EAST ANGLIA
Showing as part of the Abbeygate Cinema Made in East Anglia Festival.
Filmed extensively in Newmarket.
Sam Lilley, an ex-jockey who has been disbarred, is shown a way into Lingfield racecourse by a cheeky-faced lad named Georgie Crain. Impressed by the boy's knowledge of racing, Sam sees immense possibilities in the lad, but finds some opposition at first from his attractive, widowed mother, Barbara. Georgie manages to get taken on as a stable boy and with Sam's help begins to ride successfully. And when it looks as if the boy's career might go the same way as his own, Sam makes the ultimate sacrifice...