Riding High

Riding High (1943)

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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.

Director: George Marshall

Casts

	Dorothy Lamour as Ann Castle
	Dick Powell as Steve Baird
	Victor Moore as Mortimer J. Slocum
	Gil Lamb as Bob 'Foggy' Day
	Cass Daley as Tess Connors
	Bill Goodwin as Chuck Steuart
	Rod Cameron as Sam Welch
	Glenn Langan as Jack Holbrook
	Roscoe Karns as Shorty
	Douglas Fowley as Brown
	Stanley Andrews as Reynolds
	James Burke as Pete
	James Flavin as Train Conductor
	Tim Ryan as Jones
	Russell Simpson as Frenchy McGuire

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