Riding High (1943)

In order to help her father get his silver mine running, a burlesque queen returns home to Arizona and gets a job as an enterainer at a dude ranch and runs into a romantic mining engineer and a counterfeiter.

Director:

George Marshall

Writers:

Art Arthur, Walter DeLeon,

Stars:

Dorothy Lamour, Dick Powell, Victor Moore

Nominated for 1 Oscar.

Cast

Cast overview:
Dorothy Lamour	...	Ann Castle
Dick Powell	...	Steve Baird
Victor Moore	...	Mortimer J. Slocum
Gil Lamb	...	Bob 'Foggy' Day
Cass Daley	...	Tess Connors
Bill Goodwin	...	Chuck Steuart
Rod Cameron	...	Sam Welch
Glenn Langan	...	Jack Holbrook
Milt Britton	...	Himself (leader, Milt Britton's Band)
Milt Britton's Band	...	Themselves
The Cameron Troupe	...	Themselves

Storyline

In order to help her father get his silver mine running, a burlesque queen returns home to Arizona and gets a job as an enterainer at a dude ranch and runs into a romantic mining engineer and a counterfeiter.

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Plot Keywords:

based on play

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Taglines:

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

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Genres:

Comedy | Musical

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 November 1943 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Sultana de Sorte

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

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Soundtracks

"Whistling in the Light"
words by Leo Robin
music by Ralph Rainger
sung by Dorothy Lamour and Cass Daley

User Reviews

Grade B musical - mildly entertaining, totally forgettable

There have been five films released with the title RIDING HIGH. This 1943 effort is a very slight attempt at a musical. It has seven numbers (Whistling in the Light of Day, Secretary of the Sultan, Injun Gal, Till the All Clear Came, You're The Rainbow, Get Your Man, Willie, the Wolf of the West) - all completely forgettable, as is the dull plot re a young man (Powell) trying to raise money to work a mine, the daughter of the man he has hoodwinked (Lamour) and a counterfeiter (Moore) who proposes not to pass bad currency but to simply flourish it in the belief that those who believe someone has money will be willing to invest in projects. Cass Daley's broad and tiresome humor nearly sinks the enterprise and there is an excruciatingly long and very unfunny sequence involving Gil Lamb and an orchestra run amok. The Academy did give it a nom for Sound, which was deserved (crisp and resonant and sound effects included in a climactic wagon chase sequence), but for the general public this piece of fluff is not worth bothering to see.