Going Places (1938)
Laughs! Thrills! Songs!
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
- Date of release
- 1938-12-31
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Director
- Ray Enright
Casting
- Dick Powell — Peter Mason
- Anita Louise — Ellen Parker
- Louis Armstrong — Gabe
- Allen Jenkins — Droopy
- Ronald Reagan — Jack Withering
- Walter Catlett — Franklin Dexter
- Harold Huber — Maxie
- Larry Williams — Frank
- Thurston Hall — Col. Withering
- Minna Gombell — Cora Withering
- Joyce Compton — Joan
- Robert Warwick — Frome
Interesting facts
Going Places is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Dick Powell and Anita Louise, and directed by Ray Enright. Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales, ending up entangled in lies and having to ride a bucking horse in a steeplechase championship.
Production
The Dandridge Sisters appear unbilled, as singers in a large production number.
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