High, Wide and Handsome (1937)
July 21, 1937Release Date
High, Wide and Handsome (1937)
July 21, 1937Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Irene Dunne
Sally Watterson
Randolph Scott
Peter Cortlandt
Dorothy Lamour
Molly Fuller
Elizabeth Patterson
Grandma Cortlandt
Raymond Walburn
Doc Watterson
Charles Bickford
Red Scanlon
Akim Tamiroff
Joe Varese
Ben Blue
Zeke
William Frawley
Mac
Alan Hale
Walt Brennan
Irving Pichel
Mr. Stark
Stanley Andrews
Lem Moulton
James Burke
Stackpole
Roger Imhof
Pop Bowers
Lucien Littlefield
Mr. Lippincott
Purnell Pratt
Col. Blake
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Release DateJuly 21, 1937
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 50m
Content RatingNR
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High, Wide and Handsome is a 1937 American musical western film starring Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Alan Hale Sr., Charles Bickford and Dorothy Lamour. The film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and written by Oscar Hammerstein II and George O'Neil, with lyrics by Hammerstein and music by Jerome Kern. It was released by Paramount Pictures.
The musical recounts the history of Pennsylvania farmers in 1859 who discovered crude oil deposits on their land. When railroad barons attempt to charge exorbitant freight fees, the hardy agrarians successfully build their own pipeline to the refinery, fending off attacks by corporation-hired thugs en route. The film oscillates between the romantic setting of the Cortlandt Ranch, where Sally (Irene Dunne) and Peter (Randolph Soctt) discover love in an enchanted idyll and commune with the farm animals.