Film

Riding High

10.019391h 9m

Director: David MacDonald
Year: 1939

Popular comedian Claude Dampier is seen at his best here, as he disrupts the sedate peace of Victorian England in his attempt to help a village blacksmith win both a bicycle race and the girl. Can the blacksmith's new bicycle design triumph over his rival's trusty penny farthing?

Top cast

Claude Dampier

Septimus Earwicker

John Garrick

Tom Blake

Kathleen Gibson

Grace Meadows

Helen Haye

Miss Ada Broadbent

Billy Merson

Popping

Mae Bacon

Mrs. Winterbottom

Peter Gawthrone

Sir Joseph Wilmot

John Warwick

George Davenport

Directed by

David MacDonald

Written by

H. Fowler Mear