Hide-Out (1934)

Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.

Director:

W.S. Van Dyke

Writers:

Mauri Grashin (story), Frances Goodrich (screenplay)

Stars:

Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold

Nominated for 1 Oscar.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Robert Montgomery	...	Jonathan 'Lucky' Wilson
Maureen O'Sullivan	...	Pauline Miller
Edward Arnold	...	Det. Lt. 'Mac' MacCarthy
Elizabeth Patterson	...	'Ma' Miller
Whitford Kane	...	Henry Miller
Mickey Rooney	...	William 'Willie' Miller
C. Henry Gordon	...	Tony Berrelli aka The Boss
Muriel Evans	...	'Baby'
Edward Brophy	...	Detective Britt
Henry Armetta	...	Shuman
Herman Bing	...	Jake
Louise Henry	...	Lilly - Singer
Harold Huber	...	Dr. Warner
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tenen Holtz	...	Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)

Storyline

While running away from the police, playboy racketeer Jack 'Lucky' Wilson receives a non-life threatening bullet wound. Lucky manages to escape and drives as far as he can before passing out. Lucky is found by farmer Henry Miller, who believes Lucky is an innocent man who was randomly shot by gangsters. Lucky contacts his partner, Tony Berrelli, who sends the mob payrolled doctor to check on Lucky's condition. Tony believes this situation is perfect: the Miller farm is the perfect hide-out for Lucky from the police during Lucky's recuperation. Farm life is against Lucky's sensibilities, that is until he meets the pretty Miller daughter, Pauline. He immediately falls for her and she for him. Lucky needs to figure out how to reconcile his gangster background with the simple farm life, especially with Henry who has had his own bad experiences with racketeers, and with the police who are still after him.

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Plot Keywords:

farm | police | racketeer | playboy | doctor | 

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Taglines:

He will give you the time of your life as the Broadway playboy who goes from a tuxedo to overall- from a Rolls Royce to a hay-wagon- all for love! (Print Ad- Gowanda Enterprise, ((Gowanda, NY)) 18 October 1934)

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 August 1934 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tri mesece v raju

Filming Locations:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film was first telecast in Philadelphia Friday 8 February 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6); it first aired in Altoona PA 6 March 1957 on WFBG (Channel 10), in Minneapolis 21 March 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9), in Los Angeles 17 April 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11) and in Chicago 25 April 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2); it found its way to San Antonio 27 November 1957 on WOAI (Channel 4), to Norfolk VA 4 August 1958 on WTAR (Channel 3), and, finally, to New York City 14 June 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2), and to San Francisco 28 February 1960 on KGO (Channel 7).

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Goofs

Lucky bet Willie he could not make a run down the road and back in 5 mins. Willie did in fact make it in 3:30 winning the quarter bet.

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Connections

Remade as I'll Wait for You (1941)

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Soundtracks

How's About Tomorrow Night
(1934) (uncredited)
Music by Rube Bloom
Lyrics by Ted Koehler
Played as background music at the High Jinks nightclub and on the radio at the Miller's farm

User Reviews

Maureen O'Sullivan Tames Another Tarzan

This sentimental M-G-M "gangster" film works like a "Tarzan" in reverse: here the seemingly incorrigible hood played by Montgomery, urbane and a touch cynical, finds his cold heart surely melting in the warm embrace of a simple farm family and their soothing workaday life.

In "Tarzan" Maureen O'Sullivan is the "outsider", and although she must adjust to life in the jungle the thrust of that story is that she "domesticates" the "ape man" even as she learns to accept the simpler pleasures of living "close to nature". Here Montgomery is the one out of his element and we find him mystified by the sounds of crickets in the evening--something almost as strange and foreign to him as the unpretentious caring ways of the Miller family. When Mom and Pop and little "don't call me" Willy (played by young Mickey Rooney) conveniently leave the farm for a day, Montgomery and O'Sullivan get to play "farm" (baling the hay, splitting wood) the same way Tarzan and Jane get to play "house" together. In both cases O'Sullivan has "tamed" the wild beast.

"Tarzan" was an adventure film, however--the journey takes place in the great outdoors and nature is a mirror. "Hide-out" is an inner journey, on the other hand--even as he's hauled off to prison Montgomery smiles because he's finally come "home".