Fugitive Road
Fugitive Road is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Erich von Stroheim, Wera Engels and Leslie Fenton.[1] It is set a border post in Austria following World War I.[2] A variety of different people trying to cross the border end up stranded there, including an American gangster and a naïve young Russian woman hoping to sail to New York to join her brother.
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Wera Engels and Erich von Stroheim | |
Directed by | Frank R. Strayer |
Produced by | Maury M. Cohen |
Written by | Charles Belden Robert Ellis |
Starring | Erich von Stroheim Wera Engels Leslie Fenton |
Cinematography | M.A. Anderson |
Edited by | Roland D. Reed |
Production company | Invincible Pictures |
Distributed by | Chesterfield Pictures |
Release date | August 22, 1934 |
Running time | 69 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
It was shot at the Universal Studios with sets designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell.
Cast
- Erich von Stroheim as Hauptmann Oswald Von Traunsee
- Wera Engels as Sonya Valinoff
- Leslie Fenton as Frank Riker
- George Humbert as Papa Vinocchio
- Hank Mann as Johann, Traunsee's orderly
- Harry Holman as Burgomaster
- Ferdinand Schumann-Heink as Doctor
- Michael Visaroff as Police capt. with moustache
- Wilhelm von Brincken as Lieutenant Berne
- Harry Allen as Herbert Smythe, ambulance driver
- Anna Demetrio as Mama Vinocchio
- Leonid Kinskey as Nicholas Petrovich, tall smuggler
- Florence Enright as Burgomaster's Wife
- Harry Schultz as Sergeant
- Edith Kingdon as Tourist
- Vangie Beilby as Tourist
- Hans Fuerberg as Second Lieutenant
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References
Bibliography
- Michael R. Pitts. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
- Fugitive Road on IMDb
- Fugitive Road at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Fugitive Road at the TCM Movie Database
- Fugitive Road at AllMovie
- Fugitive Road at TV Guide (a slightly different version of this 1987 write-up was originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)
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