Red Salute (1935)
- Starring:
- Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Young, (more)
- Director(s):
- Sidney Lanfield
Synopsis of Red Salute
Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the previous year's It Happened One Night (1934) and a less-sober version of a later generation's The Way We Were (1973). Barbara Stanwyck stars as Drue Van Allen, a college student whose father (Purnell Pratt) is a general in the U.S. Army. Dad is less than enthused with Drue's new beau Arner (Hardie Albright) because the lad is a propaganda-spouting Communist. The general would rather see Drue with Jeff (Robert Young), a handsome, all-American soldier who, despite the senior officer's endorsement, has chronic run-ins with authority and is about to go AWOL. When Drue and Jeff end up in a stolen trailer bound for Mexico, they get to know each other better, and General Van Allen sees a prime opportunity to get his daughter away from the red menace for keeps. Red Salute (1935) has also been exhibited under the titles Runaway Daughter and Her Enlisted Man. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
Complete Cast of Red Salute
- Barbara Stanwyck - Drue Van Allen
- Hardie Albright - Arner
- Cliff Edwards - Rooney
- Paul Stanton - Louis Martin
- Nella Walker - Aunt Betty
- Edward McWade - Baldy
- Henry Otho - Border Patrolman
- Allen Cavan
- Jack Cheatham - Border Patrolman
- Jack Mower - Immigration Officer
- William Moore
- Dave "Tex" O'Brien - Students at Rally
- George H. Reed - Butler
- Chris-Pin Martin - Men's Room Attendant
- Fred Kohler, Jr.
- Ben Hall - Student
- Selmar Jackson
- Robert Young - Jeff
- Ruth Donnelly - Mrs. Rooney
- Gordon Jones - Lefty
- Purnell Pratt - Maj. Gen. Van Allen
- Arthur Vinton - Joe Beal
- Henry Kolker - Dean
- Harry Bowen
- Eddy Chandler - Jailer
- Lester Dorr - League Speaker
- Joe Domingues - Rubio, Chauffeur
- Tom Dugan - Prisoner
- Julian Rivero - Pedro, Mexican telegrapher
- David Newell
- Tom London - Navy Officer
- Ferdinand Gottschalk
- Edward Hearn
- Director(s):
- Sidney Lanfield
- Writer(s):
- Humphrey Pearson, Manuel Seff, Elmer Harris
- Producer(s):
- Edward Small
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