High, Wide and Handsome

Jul 21, 1937

1h 44m

★ 6.3

SINGING ADVENTURE!

Overview

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.

Genres

Music

Western

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

High, Wide and Handsome Trailers

Cast

Sally Watterson

Irene Dunne

Peter Cortlandt

Randolph Scott

Molly Fuller

Dorothy Lamour

Grandma Cortlandt

Elizabeth Patterson

Doc Watterson

Raymond Walburn

Red Scanlon

Charles Bickford

Joe Varese

Akim Tamiroff

Zeke

Ben Blue

Mac

William Frawley

Walt Brennan

Alan Hale

Mr. Stark

Irving Pichel

Lem Moulton

Stanley Andrews

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6.1

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6.7

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6.3

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6.0

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6.4

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7.5

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6.4

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8.1

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7.8

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6.2

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6.5

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7.0

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6.8

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0.0

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6.3

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5.8

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5.5

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