Shooting High (1940)

Directed by

Alfred Edward Green

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 05m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two families have been feuding for generations. A banker wants to build a highway through an area that has a monument to one family's frontier ancestor.

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What happens

Shooting High is a 1940 American Western film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Jane Withers, Gene Autry, and Marjorie Weaver. Written by Lou Breslow and Owen Francis, the film is about a generations-old feud between two families. This feud is revived when the town banker tries to construct a highway through the area where a monument is installed to the frontiersman ancestor of one of the families. Gene Autry, known as the "singing cowboy", was then under contract to Republic Pictures. Thirteen-year-old Jane Withers was a movie star and powerful box office draw. She wanted to make a movie with him, and arranged for him to be loaned to 20th Century-Fox by talking directly to each of the studio heads. Shooting High was a success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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