Riding High

Riding High (1943)

Paramount's Rhythm Rodeo in TECHNICOLOR... Heap hep songs... Heap hep squaws... Heap hep laughs!

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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  • Release Date: 1943-11-11
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Director: George Marshall

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Cast

  • Dorothy Lamour

    Ann Castle

  • Dick Powell

    Steve Baird

  • Victor Moore

    Mortimer J. Slocum

  • Gil Lamb

    Bob 'Foggy' Day

  • Cass Daley

    Tess Connors

  • Bill Goodwin

    Chuck Steuart

  • Rod Cameron

    Sam Welch

  • Glenn Langan

    Jack Holbrook

  • Roscoe Karns

    Shorty

  • Douglas Fowley

    Brown

  • Stanley Andrews

    Reynolds

  • James Burke

    Pete

  • James Flavin

    Train Conductor

  • Tim Ryan

    Jones

  • Russell Simpson

    Frenchy McGuire