Red Salute
Red Salute (also released as Arms and the Girl) is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young. Based on a story by Humphrey Pearson, the film is about the daughter of a US Army general who becomes involved with a suspected communist agitator.
Plot
Drue Van Allen, the daughter of an American general, is in love with communist graduate student Leonard Arner. When Leonard is ejected from a college campus for speaking to the students, a newspaper photographer takes a picture of him in Drue's car and prints it on the front page. When Drue ignores her father’s advice, he tricks her into boarding an airplane bound for Mexico, supposedly to see her aunt Betty off, then locks her in.
More details
| author | Elmer Harris Humphrey Pearson Manuel Seff |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Mexico Washington, D.C. |
| director | Sidney Lanfield |
| editor | Grant Whytock |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | border crossing front page graduate student henpecked husband married meet newspaper story report speak student visa suspect think |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman |
| producer | Edward Small |
| productionCompany | Reliance Pictures |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | romantic comedy |