In Love on the Run, a spoiled heiress runs away from her wedding and hides out with a man who's secretly a reporter. Sound familiar? Yes, this is a shameless remake of It Happened One Night, and even more shameless is that Clark Gable once again plays the reporter! However silly the original was, this 1936 version makes it look like Gone With the Wind. I had to turn it off two or three times, and I only finished it because I was honoring Joan Crawford as Hot Toasty Rag's Star of the Week.
When Joan initially runs away from her wedding, Clark Gable drags her to an airfield and into a private plane. "I wonder what all those do," he says as he looks at the controls. Since this is a very silly movie, he manages to fly the plane and land it without either passenger getting killed. Franchot Tone plays a rival reporter whom Clark repeatedly tricks and makes a fool out of. In one scene, he ties him to a chair, in another he hangs him on a coat rack and locks him in a closet. It's a humiliating role, and it's very sad to see Franchot forced to play it.
As if those scenes weren't silly enough, Clark and Joan spend the night in a museum where the caretaker Donald Meek thinks they're ghosts of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI. The three of them minuet together until someone thinks it's cute to start jitterbugging. I don't think you need any more examples of the silliness in this movie.
When Joan initially runs away from her wedding, Clark Gable drags her to an airfield and into a private plane. "I wonder what all those do," he says as he looks at the controls. Since this is a very silly movie, he manages to fly the plane and land it without either passenger getting killed. Franchot Tone plays a rival reporter whom Clark repeatedly tricks and makes a fool out of. In one scene, he ties him to a chair, in another he hangs him on a coat rack and locks him in a closet. It's a humiliating role, and it's very sad to see Franchot forced to play it.
As if those scenes weren't silly enough, Clark and Joan spend the night in a museum where the caretaker Donald Meek thinks they're ghosts of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI. The three of them minuet together until someone thinks it's cute to start jitterbugging. I don't think you need any more examples of the silliness in this movie.