Riding High (1937 film)

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Riding High
Directed by David MacDonald
Screenplay by H. Fowler Mear
Produced by George King
Starring Claude Dampier
John Garrick
Kathleen Gibson
Helen Haye
Cinematography Hone Glendinning
Edited by John Seabourne Sr.
Music by Kennedy Russell
Production
company
Embassy Pictures
Distributed by British Lion Films
Release date
  • 1937 (1937)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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. [1]

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It was made at Shepperton Studios. [2]

Cast

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References

  1. BFI.org
  2. Wood p.96