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Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Writers:
John Lee Mahin (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
20 November 1936 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
In the company of reporter Michael Anthony, American heiress Sally Parker flees her planned wedding... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Joan Crawford ... Sally Parker

Clark Gable ... Michael Anthony

Franchot Tone ... Barnabus Pells
Reginald Owen ... Baron Otto Spandermann
Mona Barrie ... Baroness Hilda Spandermann
Ivan Lebedeff ... Prince Igor
Charles Judels ... Lieutenant of Police
William Demarest ... Editor Lees Berger
Donald Meek ... Fontainbleau Palace Caretaker
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #2673)

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Trivia:
Many people are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names, if any): Dewey Robinson (Italian Father), Bobs Watson (Italian Boy), Betty Jane Graham (Italian Girl), Agostino Borgato (French Comptroller), Alphonse Martell (French Spy), Frank Mayo (Traveling Man), Bobby Watson (Assistant Manager) and Richard Powell. more
Quotes:
Sally Parker: May I have a cigarette? Or do they have little capsules of poison in them? more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome (1996) more
Soundtrack:
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Spies And Weddings, 18 March 2008
5/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Love On The Run is yet another example of Louis B. Mayer trying to cash in on the success that eluded him when he 'punished' Clark Gable by sending him to Columbia Pictures for a minor comedy that turned out to be It Happened One Night. For the rest of the decade Hollywood saturated the American public with madcap heiress stories.

When you've got one of the leading players under contract to you however it's a bit easier. Gable is given a rival reporter to contend with in Love On The Run in the person of Joan Crawford's real life husband, Franchot Tone. These two room together, but are ready to do everything short of cutting each other's throats to scoop the other.

Two stories that they are both assigned to cover, heiress Joan Crawford's wedding to a prince, Ivan Lebedeff, and a trans-European flight by Baron Reginald Owen get mixed up together as Crawford gets cold feet and Owen turns out to be an international spy.

Gable and Crawford have done it all before, especially Gable. But I kind of feel sorry for Franchot Tone. If he wasn't in a dinner jacket in his MGM parts he was in a film like this, essentially playing the Ralph Bellamy role. It's a very one sided rivalry Gable and Tone have. It's like the Yankees and Red Sox of the last century with the Yankees constantly coming out on top. No wonder Tone left MGM to try for better acting roles. At MGM he showed what he could do in films like Mutiny on the Bounty and Three Comrades, but even these were in support of bigger stars.

There's some nice performances in the cast from Mona Barrie as Owen's wife, Donald Meek as a most eccentric caretaker and William Demarest as Gable's editor. But no new ground was broken here.

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