Cross Country Romance

CrossCountry Romance is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Gene Raymond and Wendy Barrie. With the huge success of It Happened One Night, the 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, every studio in Hollywood attempted to cash in with a similar storyline. In addition to this film, there was also Love on the Run 1936 from MGM, The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941 by Warner Bros. even Columbia Pictures, which had made It Happened One Night, produced the musical remake Eve Knew Her Apples 1945.

Meanwhile, her wealthy, ditsy mother Hedda Hopper offers a reward for her safe return, fearing she has been kidnapped, but her fiance Walter Corbett remains remarkably blase about the whole thing.At a lunch counter, two grifters recognize Diane, and sneak aboard the trailer, but not before conning Orestes Billy Gilbert, the diners cook, into giving them twobills for 5. Orestes finally figures out he has been conned and telephones for the police. All four are taken to the Omaha police station. Police Captain G. G. Burke finally sorts things out and lets Larry and Diane go. ........

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