Riding High (1943)
1h 28m
Running Time
November 11, 1943Release Date
Riding High (1943)
1h 28m
Running Time
November 11, 1943Release Date
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Plot.
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.
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Cast & Crew.
Dorothy Lamour
Ann Castle
Dick Powell
Steve Baird
Victor Moore
Mortimer J. Slocum
Cass Daley
Tess Connors
Gil Lamb
Bob 'Foggy' Day
Bill Goodwin
Chuck Steuart
George Marshall
Director
Rod Cameron
Sam Welch
Walter DeLeon
Writer
Glenn Langan
Jack Holbrook
Arthur Phillips
Writer
Art Arthur
Writer
Roscoe Karns
Shorty
James Montgomery
Writer
Douglas Fowley
Brown
Stanley Andrews
Reynolds
Joseph Schrank
Writer
James Burke
Pete
James Flavin
Train Conductor
Tim Ryan
Jones
Russell Simpson
Frenchy McGuire
Edith Head
Costume Design
Wally Westmore
Makeup Artist
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 11, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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Wiki.
Riding High (also known as Melody Inn) is a 1943 American comedy film starring Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell, made in Technicolor, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Sound Recording (Loren L. Ryder).