Riding High
(1943)

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

Released: 1943-11-11

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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.

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Dorothy Lamour

as Ann Castle

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Dick Powell

as Steve Baird

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Victor Moore

as Mortimer J. Slocum

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Gil Lamb

as Bob 'Foggy' Day

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Cass Daley

as Tess Connors

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Bill Goodwin

as Chuck Steuart

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Rod Cameron

as Sam Welch

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Glenn Langan

as Jack Holbrook

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James Flavin

as Train Conductor

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Tim Ryan

as Jones

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Russell Simpson

as Frenchy McGuire

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Charles Bradshaw

Original Music Composer

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Leo Shuken

Original Music Composer

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Victor Young

Original Music Composer

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Hans Dreier

Art Direction

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Ernst Fegté

Art Direction

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Edith Head

Costume Design

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Harry Hallenberger

Director of Photography

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Karl Struss

Director of Photography

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Loren L. Ryder

Sound Recordist

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