Riding High (1939)
1h 9m
Running Time
December 4, 1939Release Date
Plot.
Popular comedian Claude Dampier is seen at his best here, as he disrupts the sedate peace of Victorian England in his attempt to help a village blacksmith win both a bicycle race and the girl. Can the blacksmith's new bicycle design triumph over his rival's trusty penny farthing?
Where to Watch.
Free
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Cast & Crew.
Claude Dampier
Septimus Earwicker
Helen Haye
Miss Ada Broadbent
John Garrick
Tom Blake
Kathleen Gibson
Grace Meadows
John Warwick
George Davenport
Peter Gawthrone
Sir Joseph Wilmot
Billy Merson
Popping
Mae Bacon
Mrs. Winterbottom
Details.
Wiki.
Riding High is a 1937 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Claude Dampier, John Garrick, Kathleen Gibson and Helen Haye. It is very loosely based on the story of the inventor Thomas McCall, who came up with a radically new design for a bicycle in Victorian Britain.It was made at Shepperton Studios.