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.
It was made at Shepperton Studios.
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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1937 films
1930s historical comedy films
British historical comedy films
Films set in the 19th century
Films set in England
Films directed by David MacDonald (director) British black-and-white films 1937 comedy films 1930s English-language films 1930s British films