In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies himself with Letty. With the police in hot pursuit and Legs monitoring his every move with Letty, Paul is running out of both time and ideas.
Acting
Montgomery and Evans trade banter like they're inventing the rom-com.
Direction
Boleslawski keeps 82 minutes packed with buses, bullets, and barely legal tension.
Director
Richard Boleslawski
Robert Montgomery
Paul Porter, aka Stephen Blaine
Madge Evans
Letty Morris
Ted Healy
Hector Withington, Jr.
Nat Pendleton
Legs Caffey
C. Henry Gordon
Detective Daly
Ruth Selwyn
Babe Callahan
Larry Fine
First of Three Julians
Moe Howard
Third of Three Julians
Curly Howard
Bill, Second of Three Julians
Walter Brennan
2nd Bus Driver (uncredited)
Akim Tamiroff
Deaf-Mute Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released mere months before the Hays Code crackdown, this is Hollywood squeezing in every innuendo and gun it can.
Ted Healy's Three Stooges connection explains why this crime picture keeps veering into physical comedy territory.
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