Riding High (1943)
- Starring:
- Dorothy Lamour, Dick Powell, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
Synopsis of Riding High
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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Riding High
- Dorothy Lamour - Ann Castle
- Victor Moore - Mortimer J. Slocum
- Cass Daley - Tess Connors
- Rod Cameron - Sam Welch
- Marie McDonald - Blanche
- Douglas Fowley - Brown
- Pierre Watkin - Masters
- Lane Chandler - Cowboy
- Charles Moore - Porter
- James Burke - Pete Brown
- Stanley Price - Train conductor
- John Hiestand - Commentator
- Matt McHugh - Murphy
- Milt Britton and His Band - Themselves
- Gwen Kenyon - Ginger
- Charles Soldani - Indian chief
- Bruce Cameron - Head of Cameron troupe
- Roscoe Karns - Shorty
- Tom Kennedy - Wilson
- Dick Powell - Steve Baird
- Gil Lamb - Bob "Foggy" Day
- Bill Goodwin - Chuck Stuart
- Glenn Langan - Jack Holbrook
- Andrew Tombes - P.D. Smith
- Tim Ryan - Jones
- Dwight Butcher - Cowboy
- James Flavin - Train Conductor
- William Edwards - Cowboy
- Russell Simpson - Frenchy McQuire
- Patsy Mace - Jean Holbrook
- Hal K. Dawson - Master of Ceremonies
- Wade Boteler - Mailman
- Napoleon Whiting - Red Cap
- George Carleton - Dad Castle
- Stanley Andrews - Reynolds
- Fred Kelsey - Honest John Kelsey
- Lorraine Miller - Blanche
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
- Writer(s):
- Art Arthur, Walter de Leon, Arthur Phillips
- Producer(s):
- Fred Kohlmar
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