High, Wide, and Handsome

High, Wide, and Handsome

Infobox Film
name = High, Wide, and Handsome


image_size = 200px
caption = Publicity still from "High, Wide, and Handsome"
director = Rouben Mamoulian
producer = Arthur Hornblow Jr.
writer = Oscar Hammerstein II
George O'Neil
narrator =
starring = Irene Dunne
Randolph Scott
Dorothy Lamour
music = Jerome Kern
cinematography = Victor Milner
Theodor Sparkuhl
editing = Archie Marshek
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = July 21 1937
runtime = 110 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = US$ 1.9 million
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:95189
imdb_id = 0029000

"High, Wide, and Handsome" is a 1937 Hollywood film starring Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Alan Hale, Sr., Charles Bickford, and Dorothy Lamour.

The 110-minute movie was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, and written by Oscar Hammerstein II and George O'Neil, with lyrics by Hammerstein and music by Jerome Kern. It was released by Paramount Pictures.

The film is set in rural western Titusville, Pennsylvania. In 1859, railroad tycoon Walt Brennan wants to take over the land of several oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortlandt (with whom Irene Dunne's character, Sally Watterson, falls in love). Brennan wants to use the land to build a railroad. The townspeople block the plan, assisted by a herd of circus elephants, and instead construct their own oil pipeline.

In a deliberate nod to Kern and Hammerstein's classic musical "Show Boat", which had been filmed with Irene Dunne the year before, Dunne's lovable father Raymond Walburn is the owner of a traveling musical medicine show (much like Cap'n Andy), and Dunne is its star; in addition, Dorothy Lamour sings a torch song, much as Helen Morgan did in "Show Boat".

The movie includes the classic Kern-Hammerstein song "Can I Forget You?", as well as "The Folks Who Live on the Hill". Director Mamoulian saw to it (with Kern and Hammerstein's help) that most of the songs were firmly integrated into the plot of the film and advanced the storyline.

The film was not a success when released, partly because it was shown in roadshow format, which caused it to lose more money than it normally would have.

Cast

* Irene Dunne as Sally Watterson
* Randolph Scott as Peter Cortlandt
* Dorothy Lamour as Molly Fuller
* Elizabeth Patterson as Grandma Cortlandt
* Raymond Walburn as Doc Watterson
* Charles Bickford as Red Scanlon
* Akim Tamiroff as Joe Varese
* Ben Blue as Zeke
* William Frawley as Mac
* Alan Hale, Sr. as Walt Brennan
* Irving Pichel as Mr. Stark
* Stanley Andrews as Lem Moulton
* James Burke as Stackpole
* Roger Imhof as Pop Bowers
* Lucien Littlefield as Mr. Lippincott

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