Blu-ray Review High, Wide and Handsome Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

Songs and drama in the oil fields make for uncomfortable bedfellows in Rouben Mamoulian’s High, Wide and Handsome, a 1937 musical western that’s more satisfying in its docudrama-like narrative than it is in its musical underpinnings.



High, Wide and Handsome (1937)



Released: 01 Sep 1937
Rated: Passed
Runtime: 110 min




Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Genre: Adventure, Music, Romance



Cast: Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour
Writer(s): Oscar Hammerstein II, George O'Neil



Plot: Pennsylvania, 1859. Railroad tycoon Brennan (Alan Hale) is muscling in on oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortland (Randolph Scott). Cortland must try to save their oil business, while also saving his marriage to Sally (Irene D...



IMDB rating: 6.4
MetaScore: N/A





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[Robert Harris]

The first Pennsylvania western.