Fugitive Road

Over the years, my main exposure to Erich von Stroheim have been his performances in "Grand Illusion" as a general, and in "Sunset Boulevard" as the servant. I haven't seen most of Stroheim's movies, but from the aforementioned ones and now Frank Strayer's "Fugitive Road", it seems that he had a tendency to play authoritative figures. Here he plays a guard in an Austrian border facility involved in a love triangle between a gangster from the United States and an immigrant from Hungary.

The movie doesn't have the most interesting plot. In a way, it seems like one of those movies that someone made just because they could, and I found the music too flowery. I guess that it's worth seeing if you're looking for obscure movies from the '30s, but don't go out of your way to see it.

In addition to co-stars Wera Engels and Leslie Fenton, also appearing is Charlie Chaplin's occasional co-star Hank Mann.