FUGITIVE LOVERS (1934) -- ThreeStooges.net

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Released January 05, 1934
Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges

MGM
81.9 min. (Feature Film)

Letty Morris is a New York dancer who escapes the advances of gangster 'Legs' Caffey by jumping a cross-country bus to Hollywood. Legs learns of her plans and boards the same bus. Along the way, they pass a penitentiary where fugitive Paul Porter makes his escape. During a stop-over, Porter takes a seat on the bus and immediately falls for Letty. Legs soon figures out who Porter really is and threatens to turn him in, but after realizing Letty is in love, relents and allows Porter to escape. Detective Daly catches up with Letty and travels with her, waiting for Porter to rejoin her. Porter steals the bus during an overnight stop and Letty joins him. When Porter happens upon a busload of school children caught in a dangerous snow storm, he risks all to save them.

Healy costars as an overbearing passenger, while the Stooges ride along as vaudeville performers The Three Julians.

Healy stooge Red Pearson can be spotted in the bus scenes as a sailor passenger.

Robert Montgomery is the father of Elizabeth Montgomery (BEWITCHED).

Avg. Rating:

[6.56/10]

Cast List

Robert Montgomery
Paul Porter

Madge Evans
Letty Morris

Ted Healy
Hector Withington, Jr.

Nat Pendleton
Legs Caffey

C. Henry Gordon
Detective Daly

Ruth Selwyn
Babe Callahan

Imogene Coca
Peanuts

Larry Fine
One of The Three Julians

Jerry Howard
One of The Three Julians

Moe Howard
One of The Three Julians

Lester Allen
Parker

Wade Boteler
Policeman arresting Parker

James Burke
Joe Cobb, 1st bus driver

Walter Brennan
2nd bus driver

Syd Saylor
3rd bus driver

Don Brodie
Lefty, Leg's henchman

Al Hill
Joe, Leg's henchman

Heinie Conklin
Man at bus with Hector

Milton Kibbee
Drunken friend of Hector

Harrison Greene
Drunken friend of Hector

Ray Cooke
Bellboy

Nell Craig
Cashier

Richard Cramer
Police Lieutenant

Frank Sheridan
Police Chief

Edward Hearn
Detective

Harry Tenbrook
Policeman

Edward Gargan
Policeman

Ben Hendricks, Jr.
Steve, motorcycle policeman

Louise Emmons
Newspaper hawker

Sherry Hall
Bus station clerk

Virginia Hammond
Straight-laced bus passenger

Carl Stockdale
Straight-laced woman's husband

Wilbur Mack
Theatre manager

Akim Tamiroff
Deaf mute bus passenger

Red Pearson
Sailor bus passenger

Leo White
Bus passenger

DeWitt Jennings
Prison warden

Budd Fine
Prison guard

Walter Long
Prison guard

Bobby Watson
Eddie, stage manager

Dad Mills
Blind man

Margaret Mann
Old lady

Sam McDaniel
Station attendant washing floor

Charles R. Moore
Porter

Inez Palange
Maria

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Man driving car during escape

Maidel Turner
Little boy's mother

Delmar Watson
Tommy

Production Crew

Lucien Hubbard
Associate Producer

Richard Boleslavsky
Director

Ferdinand Reyher
Story

Frank Wead
Story

George B. Seitz
Screenplay

Frances Goodrich
Screenplay

Albert Hackett
Screenplay

Ted Tetzlaff
Photography

William S. Gray
Film Editor

Arnold Gillespie
Art Director

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration

Harry Sharrock
Assistant Director

William N. Sparks
Sound Mixer

W. Donn Hayes
Music Editor

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Re: FUGITIVE LOVERS
Posted 2010-07-15 11:33:03 by Final Shemp

Fugitive Lovers has charming elements, but ultimately fails to live up to its own potential. The film is horribly acted, features some of the most shoddily overdone directing I've seen, and can't seem to get the hang of balancing comedy and drama.Yet, it was fun to watch for about 40 minutes or so. For a while, it was an entertaining character movie about people interacting on a bus trip, one of them holding a dark secret. Movies like this get a lot better, but this movie had its own pep to make it work.After a while, too many absurd twists begin to fill the movie up and it just winds up preposterous. I didn't believe for a second that Legs would take the fall for Paul, after being a horse's ass the entire movie (let alone to get arrested and held in custody for God knows how long). And Paul following Letty around like a love sick puppy dog was just him begging to be caught. And the finale with ridiculous challenges for our protagonists piling up on their laps just became tedious.By the end I was wondering just what did Paul do to earn a life sentence in prison. The movie tries to portray him with a good heart, but they just wouldn't hand a sentence like that out for a parking ticket. Or maybe I'm underestimating the power of Letty's hypnotic puppy dog eyes, which seem to have the power of men doing her bidding. Maybe the final act of the film was all her doing.Ted Healy and the Stooges are separated, for the most part. They ride the bus in question, but have no interaction with each other. Healy is decent as a loud mouthed passenger that likes to converse with people and the Stooges get a lot of laughs as a musical group named the Three Julians. My favorite gag involves Moe suddenly waking up to a fear that he has lost his voice, so he stands up in a flash and gives a loud musical bellow that effectively wakes everyone up.After a while, the entire group exits the movie and the poor film is left by itself to collapse under its own weight. Our boys exited this bus at the right time.Final Shemp's Final Word: 2 Pokes

Reviewer's Rating:

(5)

Re: FUGITIVE LOVERS
Posted 2001-12-06 08:01:00 by Shemp_Diesel

Suprisingly good movie, much better to sit through than the snoozefest "Soup to Nuts". Healy even managed to be funny in a few scenes, simply amazing. The only pain I had during this movie was Nat Pendleton as "Legs" Caffey. What a pain in the ass he was, and the fact that the lead lady fell in love awful quick w/ Robert Montgomery. Fickle thing the human heart.3 1/2 stars(Moe had some nice pipes didn't he?)Edited by - Shemp_Diesel on 12/17/2001 8:08:05 AM

Reviewer's Rating:

(9)

Re: FUGITIVE LOVERS
Posted 2001-05-08 17:08:00 by BeAStooge

Strange Stooges... Curly and Larry and almost benign, while Moe plays the idiot. Trivia - star Bob Montgomery's daughter Elizabeth was born during production.

Reviewer's Rating:

(6)

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Prod. No.:	716
Shooting Days:	31 days From: 1933-10-18 To: 1933-11-22

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