Fugitive Road
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| Fugitive Road | |
|---|---|
| Error creating thumbnail: File missing Wera Engels and Erich von Stroheim | |
| Directed by | Frank R. Strayer |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Maury M. Cohen |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | M.A. Anderson |
| Edited by | Roland D. Reed |
Production company | Invincible Pictures |
| Distributed by | Chesterfield Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
It was shot at the Universal Studios with sets designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell.
Plot
[edit | edit source]This article needs a plot summary. (January 2024) |
Cast
[edit | edit source]- 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
References
[edit | edit source]Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- Fugitive Road at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Fugitive Road at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Fugitive Road at the TCM Movie Database
- Fugitive Road at TV Guide (a slightly different version of this 1987 write-up was originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)
Categories:
- 1934 films
- 1934 comedy-drama films
- 1930s American films
- 1930s English-language films
- American black-and-white films
- American comedy-drama films
- Chesterfield Pictures films
- English-language comedy-drama films
- Films directed by Frank R. Strayer
- Films set in Austria
- Films set in the 1910s
- 1930s comedy-drama film stubs