Shooting High
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Alfred E. Green
Jane Withers
Gene Autry
Marjorie Weaver
Robert Lowery
Katharine Aldridge
Film Details
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Synopsis
The long standing feud between the Carsons and the Pritchards threatens the romance of Will Carson and Marjorie Pritchard. Calvin Pritchard, Marjorie's father as well as the bank president and mayor of Carson Corners, pretends to sanction Will's courtship of his daughter because he needs some Carson property for a proposed highway. When Will learns Calvin's motives, he accuses Marjorie of plotting with her father to steal Carson land. Gene's accusation causes the long simmering dispute to erupt, and as the clans begin their bickering, Gabby Cross, a publicity agent for Spectrum Pictures, appears and offers the town $20,000 to serve as a location for a picture he is making about Wild Bill Carson, Will's grandfather and the founder of Carson Corners. An angry Calvin refuses Gabby's offer, but Jane, his younger daughter, suggests a compromise: the highway for the picture. The bargain struck, the movie company comes to town and star Bob Merritt begins to court Marjorie. Jane, who wants her sister to marry Will, schemes with the sheriff to frighten Merritt out of town by telling him that a lynch party is after his neck. When the head of Spectrum Pictures threatens to sue Pritchard for Merritt's defection, Gabby suggests giving the part to Will, who agrees on the condition that Pritchard extend the Carson mortgages. In the midst of filming, three gangsters drive into town, and when the company stages a bank hold-up, the three slip into the actors' costumes and rob the bank for real. Pursuing them on horseback, Will brings the thieves and the money back to town, thus winning the Pritchards' respect and Marjorie's hand.
Director
Alfred E. Green
Cast
Jane Withers
Gene Autry
Marjorie Weaver
Robert Lowery
Katharine Aldridge
Hobart Cavanaugh
Frank M. Thomas
Jack Carson
Hamilton Macfadden
Charles Middleton
Ed Brady
Tom London
Eddie Acuff
Pat O'malley
George Chandler
Harold Goodwin
Lee Moore
Leroy Mason
Carl Stockdale
Lew Kelly
Ivan Miller
Emmett Vogan
Kathryn Sheldon
Paul Burns
Georgia Simmons
Crew
Harry Akst
William H. Anderson
Gene Autry
Felix Bernard
Lou Breslow
Otto Brower
Nicholas Castle
Lewis Creber
Richard Day
Nick Demaggio
Herbert O. Farjeon
Owen Francis
Fred Glickman
Eugene Grossman
Charles Hall
Joseph Hoffman
Frances Hyland
Samuel Kaylin
William Koenig
Thomas Little
Johnny Marvin
Helen A. Myron
Charles Newman
Ernest Palmer
Geneva Sawyer
John Stone
Harry Tobias
Paul Webster
Sol M. Wurtzel
Lester Ziffren
Film Details
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The working title of this picture was Jubilo. According to an early studio press release, this picture was to have featured Tony Martin and Joan Davis. The Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Theater Arts Library add that second unit director Otto Brower filmed the Southern Pacific Train crew at Santa Susana Pass, CA. This was Gene Autry's first non-Republic western and the first time that he wasn't named "Gene" in a picture. According to another studio press release, a controversy occurred over whether Gene should kiss Marjorie Weaver at the film's conclusion, and when his fans objected, the scene was dropped.
