Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan have oodles of chemistry together in this minor romantic comedy.
Montgomery is a gangster on the lam who gets wounded and taken in by a nice country family out in the middle of nowhere. Of course he falls for the daughter, and of course the cops find out where he is and come looking for him, and of course there's a precocious little brother who we're supposed to find adorable (in this case a young Mickey Rooney, and he actually is kind of cute). There are no surprises and no major laughs, but there are plenty of moments that will make you smile (like Montgomery feeding the chickens), and it's so short as to barely qualify as a feature length movie, so you don't have to invest much time in it.
"Hide-Out" received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Story at the 1934 Academy Awards.
Grade: B+
Montgomery is a gangster on the lam who gets wounded and taken in by a nice country family out in the middle of nowhere. Of course he falls for the daughter, and of course the cops find out where he is and come looking for him, and of course there's a precocious little brother who we're supposed to find adorable (in this case a young Mickey Rooney, and he actually is kind of cute). There are no surprises and no major laughs, but there are plenty of moments that will make you smile (like Montgomery feeding the chickens), and it's so short as to barely qualify as a feature length movie, so you don't have to invest much time in it.
"Hide-Out" received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Story at the 1934 Academy Awards.
Grade: B+