You Can't Run Away from It

You Can't Run Away from It
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Directed by	Dick Powell
Produced by	Dick Powell
Written by	Samuel Hopkins-Adams (story) Robert Riskin (prev. screenplay) Claude Binyon (screenplay)
Starring	June Allyson Jack Lemmon
Music by	Johnny Mercer (songs) George Duning (score)
Cinematography	Charles Lawton Jr.
Editing by	Al Clark
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	October 31, 1956
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

You Can't Run Away from It is a 1956 Technicolor and CinemaScope musical comedy starring June Allyson and Jack Lemmon. Directed and produced by Dick Powell, the film is a remake of the 1934 Academy Award-winning film It Happened One Night.

Plot

Because she married an international playboy, Ellie Andrews (June Allyson) is kidnapped by her own father, Texas cattleman A. A. Andrews (Charles Bickford). She escapes, managing to evade his nationwide search for her with the help of Peter Warne (Jack Lemmon), a jobless reporter, who sees himself getting the biggest story of the year - until he and Ellie fall in love. When Ellie suspects Peter has sold her out, she returns home. Realizing his daughter really loves the newspaperman, Andrews tries to persuade Ellie to run away again, this time from her own wedding ceremony. Who will Ellie choose, her husband or the man who has stolen her heart?

Cast

• June Allyson as Ellie Andrews
• Jack Lemmon as Peter Warne
• Charles Bickford as A.A. Andrews
• Paul Gilbert as George Shapely
• Jim Backus as Danker
• Stubby Kaye as Fred Toten
• Jack Albertson as Third proprietor
• Queenie Smith as the elderly lady
• Frank Sully as Red
• Howard McNear as Vernon
• Jacques Scott as Jacques 'Jack' Ballarino
• The Four Aces as Themselves
• Barrie Chase as Western Union Girl (uncredited)

Soundtrack

Decca Records issued selections from the soundtrack on one side of an Lp Record, with music from other film scores on the reverse.

Selections include:

• "You Can't Run Away from It"

Performed by The Four Aces

• "Howdy Friends and Neighbours"

Performed by June Allyson and Jack Lemmon

• "Thumbin' a Ride"

Performed by June Allyson and Jack Lemmon

• "Temporarily"

Performed by June Allyson and Jack Lemmon

• "Scarecrow Ballet"

Performed by Morris Stoloff conducting the Columbia Studio Orchestra

These selections were reissued on CD by Decca Broadway, paired with the Broadway cast album of Texas Li'l Darlin'.

External links

• You Can't Run Away from It at the Internet Movie Database
• You Can't Run Away from It at the TCM Movie Database
• You Can't Run Away from It at AllRovi