Love on the Run (1936)
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80% of critics liked it
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58% of users liked it
(244 ratings)
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… 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
- Directed By
- W.S. Van Dyke, François Truffaut
- Written By
- John Lee Mahin, Manuel Seff, Gladys Hurlbut
- Genres
- Romance, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 20, 1936 Wide
- Studio
- Unknown
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Though the plot line is thin, the presence of Crawford and Gable make it watchable.
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Charming romantic comedy with the stars at their peak.
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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
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Joan Crawford
as Sally Parker
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Clark Gable
as Michael Anthony
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Franchot Tone
as Barnabas Pells
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Reginald Owen
as Baron Spandermann
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Mona Barrie
as Baronness
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Ivan Lebedeff
as Prince Igor
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Donald Meek
as Caretaker
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Charles Judels
as Lieutenant of Police
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William Demarest
as Editor
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Norman Ainsley
as Newspaper Reporter
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Harry Allen
as Chauffeur
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Alice Ardell
as French Maid
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Jimmy Aubrey
as Airplane Mechanic
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Egon Brecher
as Dr. Gorsay
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Agostino Borgato
as French Comptroller
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Elsa Buchanan
as English Department Store Girl
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James B. Carson
as French Waiter
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Gennaro Curci
as French Train Announcer
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Gunnis Davis
as Hotel Elevator Man
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Frank Du Frane
as Assistant to Editor
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Otto H. Fries
as Mechanic
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Billy Gilbert
as Cafe Manager
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Betty Jane Graham
as Italian Girl
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Tom Herbert
as Comic Taxi Driver
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Lilyan Irene
as Bit
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Charles Irwin
as Movie Camerama
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Donald Kerr
as Movie Cameraman
- Leonid Kinskey
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Adia Kuznetzoff
as Rudolph Baron's Servant
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Nanette Lafayette
as French Maid
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Joe Mack
as Hack Driver
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Fred Malatesta
as French Waiter
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Mona Maris
as Baroness
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Margaret Marquis
as Bit
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Alphonse Martell
as French Spy
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Frank Mayo
as Traveling Man
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Viola Moore
as English Department Store Girl
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Richard Powell
as Bit
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Frank Puglia
as Waiter
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Dewey Robinson
as Italian Father
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C. Montague Shaw
as Motel Manager
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Yorke Sherwood
as London Bobby
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Phillips Smalley
as Bit
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Eleanor Stewart
as Bit
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Charles Trowbridge
as Express Company Manager
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Bobby Watson
as Italian Boy
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Duke York
as Paul Baron's Chauffeur
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Fred Cavens
as French Waiter
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George Andre Beranger
as Comedy Reactionary
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Douglas Gordon
as Cockney Comic Chauffeur
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Jacques Vanaire
as French Telegraph Operator
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Robert Cory
as Assistant to Inspector McCaskill
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Robert Du Couedic
as French Clerk
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Richard Lancaster
as English News Photographer
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Genaro Spagnoli
as French Taxi Driver
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George Davis
as Sgt. of Police
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John Power
as English Major-Domo
- Claude Jade
- Dani
- Daniel Mesguich
- Dorothée
- Jean-Pierre Léaud
- Julien Bertheau
- Marie-France Pisier
- Rosy Varte
