HIGH, WIDE, AND HANDSOME.

Produced by Paramount pictures in 1937. Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott in a colorful picture combining history, action and music. The story of putting through the first oil pipeline from western Pennsylvania to the seaboard. Farmers clash with greedy railroad operators

In 1859, Doc Watterson brings his traveling medicine show to Titusville, Pennsylvania. The townspeople block the plan, assisted by a herd of circus elephants, and instead construct their own oil pipeline. Irene Dunne, Dorothy Lamour sing a torch song, much as Helen Morgan did in Show Boat.

Credits

Cast
Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour
Complete catalog record
HIGH, WIDE, AND HANDSOME. Presented by Adolph Zukor. 1937. 11 reels, sd. Credits: Producer, Arthur Hornblow; director, Rouben Mamoulian; original story, screenplay and lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein II; additional dialogue, George O'Neil; music, Jerome Kern. Paramount Pictures, Inc.; 1Oct37; LP7470.

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