RIDING ON AIR (1937) Joe E. Brown, Guy Kibbee & Florence Rice | Action, Adventure, Comedy | B&W

Riding on Air is a 1937 American film directed by Edward Sedgwick. The film is also known as All Is Confusion in the United Kingdom.

SYNOPSIS
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.

Joe E. Brown plays hapless newspaper writer, editor; amateur pilot, HAM radio operator, and gadget crazy Elmer Lane, in 1930's rural America. In love with the beautiful Betty, he does everything he can to buy the paper outright; so, he can win her. But, somehow something always comes out of the blue: gangsters, smugglers, murdered mobsters, rival newspaper reporters, con artists, police, new inventions, and small dogs, all get in the way. It's all "Riding on Air" how this fun, wild, ride, will land, or if the parachute will even open.

CAST & CREW
Joe E. Brown as Elmer Lane
Guy Kibbee as J. Rutherford "Doc" Waddington
Florence Rice as Betty Harrison
Vinton Hayworth as Harvey Schuman
Anthony Nace as Bill Hilton
Harlan Briggs as Mr. Harrison
Andrew Tombes as Eddie Byrd
Clem Bevans as Sheriff
Harry C. Bradley as Mayor

Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Written by Richard Macaulay (Elmer Rice character), Richard Macaulay (screenplay) and Richard Flournoy (screenplay)
Produced by David L. Loew
Cinematography Alfred Gilks
Edited by Jack Ogilvie
Music by Arthur Morton, Marlin Skiles
Release date June 18, 1937
Running time 70 minutes
Country United States
Language English