Riding High (1937 film)
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| director = David MacDonald
| producer = George King
| writer =
| screenplay = H. Fowler Mear
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| starring = Claude Dampier
John Garrick
Kathleen Gibson
Helen Haye
| music = Kennedy Russell
| cinematography = Hone Glendinning
| editing = John Seabourne Sr.
| studio = Embassy Pictures
| distributor = British Lion Films
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1937|||}}
| runtime = 68 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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Riding High is a 1937 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Claude Dampier, John Garrick, Kathleen Gibson and Helen Haye. It is very loosely based on the story of the inventor Thomas McCall, who came up with a radically new design for a bicycle in Victorian Britain.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115024018/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/332142 BFI.org]
It was made at Shepperton Studios.Wood p.96
Cast
- Claude Dampier as Septimus Earwicker
- Helen Haye as Miss Ada Broadbent
- John Garrick as Tom Blake
- Kathleen Gibson as Grace Meadows
- John Warwick as George Davenport
- Billy Merson as Popping
- Mae Bacon as Mrs. Winterbottom
- Peter Gawthorne as Sir Joseph Wilmot
- Billy Holland as Jack Adamson
- Billy Bray as Ted Rance
- Aileen Latham as Fanny
- The Georgian Singers as Minstrel singers
- Mansell & Ling as Banjo duet
- Bertie Kendrick as Boy vocalist
- Mike Johnson as Mayor
- John Singer as Simon
- H Victor Weske
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0169178}}
{{David MacDonald}}
Category:1930s historical comedy films
Category:British historical comedy films
Category:Films set in the 19th century
Category:Films directed by David MacDonald (director)
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:Films scored by Kennedy Russell
Category:English-language historical comedy films
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