You Can't Run Away from It (1956) Online
Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. She escapes and starts an adventurous trip back to Houston to be with her husband. Her Father hires a private investigator to stop her. On the bus to Houston, a newspaper man (Jack Lemmon) figures out who she is. Instead of cashing in on the big story and the reward money he falls in love with her.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
June Allyson | - | Ellen 'Ellie' Andrews | |
Jack Lemmon | - | Peter Warne | |
Charles Bickford | - | A.A. Andrews | |
Paul Gilbert | - | George Shapely | |
Jim Backus | - | Danker | |
Stubby Kaye | - | Fred Toten | |
Henny Youngman | - | First Driver | |
Allyn Joslyn | - | Joe Gordon, Editor | |
Jacques Scott | - | Jacques 'Jack' Ballarino | |
Walter Baldwin | - | 1st Proprietor | |
The Four Aces | - | Vocal Quartette | |
Byron Foulger | - | Billings, Andrews' Secretary | |
Richard H. Cutting | - | First Hotel Proprietor | |
Louise Beavers | - | Maid | |
Raymond Greenleaf | - | Minister |
The character Danker is played here by Jim Backus. In Het gebeurde op 'n avond (1934), Danker was played by Alan Hale, the father of Backus' future _Gilligan's Island (1964-1967)_ costar Alan Hale Jr.
This is a remake/musical adaptation of "It Happened One Night" from the same story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams and screenplay by Robert Riskin.
One of several musicals made by Columbia Pictures in the mid-1950s that were based on earlier, non-musical studio properties. While this one spawned from It Happened One Night (1934), Let's Do It Again (1952) was a musicalization of The Awful Truth (1937), and Three For the Show (1955) was based on Too Many Husbands (1941). Another musical remake was more inadvertent: Columbia had planned to make the film version of the 1953 Broadway hit "Wonderful Town," which had been based on the Columbia property My Sister Eileen (1942), but the asking price for the rights was so steep that the studio ultimately decided to go ahead with its own version, keeping the original title, which they already owned, and commissioning a new score.
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