You Can't Run Away from It

You Can't Run Away from It

theatrical poster
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, lyrics, and Gene de Paul, music (songs)
George Duning (scoring)
Cinematography Charles Lawton Jr.
Edited by Al Clark
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
 October 31, 1956
Running time
 95 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1.45 million (US)[1]

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. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford, Jim Backus, Stubby Kaye, Jack Albertson and Howard McNear. It Happened One Night had also been remade as a musical comedy in 1945 as Eve Knew Her Apples.

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

Soundtrack

Decca Records issued selections from the soundtrack on one side of an Lp Record, with music from other film scores on the reverse.[2]

Selections include:

Performed by The Four Aces

Performed by Stubby Kaye, June Allyson, and Jack Lemmon

Performed by June Allyson and Jack Lemmon

Performed by June Allyson and Jack Lemmon

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'.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Top Grosses of 1957", Variety, 8 January 1958: 30, changing 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956', Variety Weekly, January 2, 1957
  2. ↑ "You Can't Run Away From It > Film soundtrack". CastAlbums.org. 2004-09-28. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
  3. ↑ "Texas, Lil Darlin' / You Can't Run Away from It: Robert Emmett Dolan, Johnny Mercer, Gene DePaul: Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-03-16.


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