Riding High (1950)
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
- Date of release
- 1950-04-12
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Frank Capra
Casting
- Bing Crosby — Dan Brooks
- Coleen Gray — Alice 'Princess' Higgins
- Charles Bickford — J.L. Higgins
- Frances Gifford — Margaret Higgins
- William Demarest — Happy
- Raymond Walburn — Prof. Pettigrew
- James Gleason — Racing Secretary
- Ward Bond — Lee
- Clarence Muse — Whitey
- Percy Kilbride — Pop Jones
- Harry Davenport — Johnson
- Margaret Hamilton — Edna
Interesting facts
Riding High is a 1950 American black-and-white musical racetrack film featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra. The songs were performed live during filming instead of the customary lip-synching to studio recordings. The film is a remake of an earlier Capra film with screenwriter Robert Riskin titled Broadway Bill (1934). While the film is generally a light musical comedy, its plot contains an unexpected tragic turn.
Production
Filming took place from March 9 to May 1949.
The film is a remake of Broadway Bill (1934), and some scenes for both Broadway Bill and Riding High were filmed at the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno, California.
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