Riding High (1943)
Directed by George Marshall · 88 min · Western, Comedy, Music
0.3 TOPICAL score · #6,744 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Riding High (1943, directed by George Marshall) has a TOPICAL score of 0.3 - ranked 6,744 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and lasting engagement, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 5.6/10 (5 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 5.6/10 (5 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 4 languages
- Still read256 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Dorothy Lamour (actor #1,925), Dick Powell (actor #1,723), Victor Moore (actor #1,823), Gil Lamb
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