FUGITIVE ROAD (NineteenThirtyFour) Erich Von Stroheim, Wera Engles | Comedy, Drama, Romance | B&W

Fugitive Road is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Erich von Stroheim, Wera Engels and Leslie Fenton.[1] It is set a border post in Austria following World War I.[2] A variety of different people trying to cross the border end up stranded there, including an American gangster and a naïve young Russian woman hoping to sail to New York to join her brother.

It was shot at the Universal Studios with sets designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell.

SYNOPSIS
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.

CAST & CREW
Erich von Stroheim as Hauptmann Oswald Von Traunsee
Wera Engels as Sonya Valinoff
Leslie Fenton as Frank Riker
George Humbert as Papa Vinocchio
Hank Mann as Johann, Traunsee's orderly
Harry Holman as Burgomaster
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink as Doctor
Michael Visaroff as Police capt. with moustache
Wilhelm von Brincken as Lieutenant Berne
Harry Allen as Herbert Smythe, ambulance driver
Anna Demetrio as Mama Vinocchio
Leonid Kinskey as Nicholas Petrovich, tall smuggler
Florence Enright as Burgomaster's Wife
Harry Schultz as Sergeant
Edith Kingdon as Tourist
Vangie Beilby as Tourist
Hans Fuerberg as Second Lieutenant

Directed by Frank R. Strayer
Written by Charles Belden, Robert Ellis
Produced by Maury M. Cohen
Cinematography M.A. Anderson
Edited by Roland D. Reed
Production company Invincible Pictures
Distributed by Chesterfield Pictures
Release date August 22, 1934
Running time 69 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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