Red Salute

Plot

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

Cast

• Barbara Stanwyck - Drue Van Allen
• Robert Young - Jeff
• Hardie Albright - Arner
• Ruth Donnelly - Mrs. Rooney
• Cliff Edwards - Rooney

Gordon Jones - Lefty; Paul Stanton - Louis Martin; Purnell Pratt - Maj. Gen. Van Allen; Nella Walker - Aunt Betty; Arthur Vinton - Joe Beal; Edward McWade - Baldy; Henry Kolker - Dean; Henry Otho - Border Patrolman; Harry Bowen; Allen Cavan; Eddy Chandler - Jailer; Jack Cheatham - Border Patrolman; Lester Dorr - League Speaker; Ferdinand Gottschalk; Ben Hall - Student; Edward Hearn; Selmar Jackson; Fred Kohler, Jr.; Tom London - Navy Officer; Chris-Pin Martin - Men's Room Attendant; Jack Mower - Immigration Officer; David Newell; George H. Reed - Butler; Julian Rivero - Pedro, Mexican telegrapher; Dave "Tex" O'Brien - Students at Rally; Tom Dugan - Prisoner; William Moore; Joe Domingues - Rubio, Chauffeur

Credit

John DuCasse Schulze - Art Director, Sidney Lanfield - Director, Grant Whytock - Editor, Robert Planck - Cinematographer, Edward Small - Producer, Elmer Harris - Screenwriter, Humphrey Pearson - Screenwriter, Manuel Seff - Screenwriter

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