Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have never travelled on a bus and believe the "Fugitive Lovers" gives an authentic picture of one, you may rush to the nearest bus station and start for the coast. Irrelevant as the following remark may be, we feel duty bound to warn you that biliousness, depression, and not infrequently locomotor ataxia result from one ride on these floundering monsters. But this film tries to make one believe that adventure and romance breed on buses. If you desire fantasy, "Fugitive Lovers" is pleasant enough...
Robert Montgomery, as the escaped convict, Porter, boards a Los Angeles bound bus, a Greyhound bus, (note the advertising element that creeps into Hollywoodiana) and he immediately falls for the babe at his side. Letty is the girl's name, and she lets him know that she is avoiding Legs, a New York gangster. Legs glares at the couple, and Withington (Ted Healy) is trying to persuade a prim woman to take a drink, and Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped...
...Montgomery and Miss Evans are adequate as the lovers, but Healy and company seem to have had a better opportunity for horse-play than the former had for love making on a big bouncing bus; we preferred the pure nonsense. We wonder why "Fugitive Lovers" was not a propaganda film against buses; it would really have been amusing to see twenty-four passengers quite dead after a two hundred mile trip with only a burly driver left to tell the tale...
...Keith's--"It Happened One Night." Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable romp about on a night bus until . . . the inevitable. Nevertheless recommended for colorless, but pleasant acting by Miss Colbert, and for the amusing dialogue...
...Keith's--"It Happened One Night." Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable romp about on a night bus until . . . the inevitable. Nevertheless recommended for coloreds, but pleasant acting by Miss Colbert, and for the amusing dialogue...