Information
- BFI identifier271872
- Date1939 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisIn 1879 England, a solicitor helps a village blacksmith win a bicycle race on his new invention. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe following statement regarding the story appears after the opening credits: 'It is little more than half a century ago that the peaceful life of Victorian England was suddenly revolutionised by a new invention. Speed had entered the lives of the community -- distance was laughed at, for ten miles an hour was no longer an idle dream. "The Bicycle had Arrived"'
- Genre
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: David MacDonald
[Production Company]: Embassy Film Company
Presents: British Lion Film Corporation
view all - CastClaude Dampier (Septimus Earwicker)
Helen Haye (Miss Ada Broadbent)
John Garrick (Tom Blake)
view full cast
Title
Riding High (Original)
Remember When (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/B4C3-63F5-E312-1ED4-0BE4-OCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
- Collections
- Film / Video
LTO5 - Video - MP4 - Viewing
LTO5 - Video - MP4 - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsEphemera: publicity - PBS-271872
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-271872
Medium and small pressbooks held.
view all - Articles
- +Riding High
Work - 271872 - 1939 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
Hierarchy Display