Love on the Run (1936)

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Having turned down the opportunity to produce Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934), MGM's Louis B. Mayer had second thoughts when the Capra film swept the 1935 Oscars ceremony. Mayer hastily commissioned an It Happened One Night wannabe titled Love on the Run, tailored for the talents of Joan… More Having turned down the opportunity to produce Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934), MGM's Louis B. Mayer had second thoughts when the Capra film swept the 1935 Oscars ceremony. Mayer hastily commissioned an It Happened One Night wannabe titled Love on the Run, tailored for the talents of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable (who, of course, had starred in the Capra picture, and had copped one of those Oscars). Gable and Franchot Tone play rival journalists Michael Anthony and Barnabas Pells, who travel the length and breadth of Europe to outscoop one another. Crawford portrays madcap heiress Sally Parker, who is engaged to marry fortune-hunting Prince Igor (Ivan Lebedeff). Whereas in It Happened One Night the heroine (Claudette Colbert) linked up with Gable in order to expedite her elopement with the wrong man, in Love on the Run Crawford seeks out Gable's help to escape her impending marriage with Prince Igor. The two stars combine their flight across Europe with business, dogging the trail of international aviator Baron Spandermann (Reginald Owen), whom Anthony suspects of being a spy. Pells goes along with Anthony and Parker, and soon all three of them are tied up (literally, in Pells' case) with an espionage ring. While it is Clark Gable who ends up with Joan Crawford at fadeout time, it was Franchot Tone who claimed her as his bride in real life. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 8 hr. 16 min.
Directed By: W.S. Van Dyke, François Truffaut
Written By: John Lee Mahin, Manuel Seff, Gladys Hurlbut
Genres: Romance, Classics, Comedy

In Theaters: Nov 20, 1936 Wide
On DVD: Jun 17, 2008
Studio: Unknown

Critic Reviews

Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Though the plot line is thin, the presence of Crawford and Gable make it watchable.
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Charming romantic comedy with the stars at their peak.
John A. Nesbit, Old School Reviews
1979 film serves more as a summation of Doniel's life, as nearly half of the film consists of flashbacks to the previous four films

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Cast

            Joan Crawford as Sally Parker

            Clark Gable as Michael Anthony

            Franchot Tone as Barnabas Pells

            Reginald Owen as Baron Spandermann

            Mona Barrie as Baronness

            Ivan Lebedeff as Prince Igor

            Donald Meek as Caretaker

            Charles Judels as Lieutenant of Police

            William Demarest as Editor

            Norman Ainsley as Newspaper Reporter

            Harry Allen as Chauffeur

            Alice Ardell as French Maid

            Jimmy Aubrey as Airplane Mechanic

            Egon Brecher as Dr. Gorsay

            Agostino Borgato as French Comptroller

            Elsa Buchanan as English Department Store Girl

            James B. Carson as French Waiter

            Gennaro Curci as French Train Announcer

            Gunnis Davis as Hotel Elevator Man

            Frank Du Frane as Assistant to Editor

            Otto H. Fries as Mechanic

            Billy Gilbert as Cafe Manager

            Betty Jane Graham as Italian Girl

            Tom Herbert as Comic Taxi Driver

            Lilyan Irene as Bit

            Charles Irwin as Movie Camerama

            Donald Kerr as Movie Cameraman

            Leonid Kinskey
            
            Adia Kuznetzoff as Rudolph Baron's Servant

            Nanette Lafayette as French Maid

            Joe Mack as Hack Driver

            Fred Malatesta as French Waiter

            Mona Maris as Baroness

            Margaret Marquis as Bit

            Alphonse Martell as French Spy

            Frank Mayo as Traveling Man

            Viola Moore as English Department Store Girl

            Richard Powell as Bit

            Frank Puglia as Waiter

            Dewey Robinson as Italian Father

            C. Montague Shaw as Motel Manager

            Yorke Sherwood as London Bobby

            Phillips Smalley as Bit

            Eleanor Stewart as Bit

            Charles Trowbridge as Express Company Manager

            Bobby Watson as Italian Boy

            Duke York as Paul Baron's Chauffeur

            Fred Cavens as French Waiter

            George Andre Beranger as Comedy Reactionary

            Douglas Gordon as Cockney Comic Chauffeur

            Jacques Vanaire as French Telegraph Operator

            Robert Cory as Assistant to Inspector McCaskill

            Robert Du Couedic as French Clerk

            Richard Lancaster as English News Photographer

            Genaro Spagnoli as French Taxi Driver

            George Davis as Sgt. of Police

            John Power as English Major-Domo

            Claude Jade
            
            Dani
            
            Daniel Mesguich
            
            Dorothée
            
            Jean-Pierre Léaud
            
            Julien Bertheau
            
            Marie-France Pisier
            
            Rosy Varte
            
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