Fugitive Lovers

Fugitive Lovers
Directed by	Richard Boleslavsky
Written by	Ferdinand Reyher Frank Wead
Produced by	Lucien Hubbard
Starring	Madge Evans Robert Montgomery Nat Pendleton Ted Healy Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard
Edited by	William S. Gray
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	January 5, 1934
Running time	84 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Fugitive Lovers is a 1934 feature film starring Madge Evans and Robert Montgomery, Nat Pendleton, C. Henry Gordon, Ruth Selwyn and Ted Healy and His Stooges. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Synopsis

Letty Morris (Madge Evans) is a New York dancer who's shunning the advances of the gangster "Legs" Caffey (Nat Pendleton) by jumping a cross-country bus to Hollywood. Legs learns of her plans and boards the bus. Along the way, the bus passes a penitentiary where a fugitive named Paul Porter (Robert Montgomery) made his escape and hides among the luggage.

During a stop-over, Porter attains a seat on the bus and immediately falls for Letty. Legs soon discovers Porter is on the bus and threatens to turn him in, but after realizing Letty is in love, relents and allows Porter to escape. Detective Daly C. Henry Gordon, however catches up with Letty and travels with her, waiting for Porter to rejoin her. Porter steals the bus during an overnight stop and Letty joins him. A harrowing car chase ensues. When Porter happens upon a busload of school kids caught in a dangerous storm, he risks all to save them.

See also

• The Three Stooges filmography

Notes

In this film, Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard) act are known as "The Three Julians".

References

• Fugitive Lovers at IMDb
• Fugitive Lovers at ThreeStooges.net