Shooting High (1940)

Interesting facts

Shooting High is a 1940 American Western film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Jane Withers, Gene Autry, and Marjorie Weaver. Written by Lou Breslow and Owen Francis, the film is about a generations-old feud between two families. This feud is revived when the town banker tries to construct a highway through the area where a monument is installed to the frontiersman ancestor of one of the families.

Production

Jane Withers is considered responsible for recruiting Gene Autry to 20th Century-Fox for Shooting High. At the time the thirteen-year-old star was the number 6 box office draw in the country. She called Joseph M. Schenck, then head of 20th Century-Fox, telling him she wanted to do a film with Gene Autry. Schenck liked the idea, but suspected Republic Pictures would never loan the "singing cowboy" to another studio.

This was Autry's first movie as a co-star, his first since 1934 without the comic presence of Smiley Burnette, and his first playing a character other than himself.

Shooting High was filmed November 18 to December 16, 1939.

20th Century Fox backlot, Calabasas, California, USA

Santa Susana Pass, Simi Valley, Los Angeles

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