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.
Year: 1943
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, Gil Lamb, Cass Daley, Bill Goodwin
Crew: George Marshall (Director), Art Arthur (Writer), Walter DeLeon (Writer), Buddy G. DeSylva (Executive Producer), LeRoy Stone (Editor), Stephen Seymour (Set Decoration)
Runtime: 88 minutes
Release: Nov 11, 1943
IMDb: 4.00/10 by 3 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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