Riding High

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