Eve Knew Her Apples (1945) + You Can't Run Away from It (1956) DVD-R

Get the original film, Eve Knew Her Apples (1945), and the remake, You Can't Run Away from It (1956), for 20% off their individual prices!

EVE KNEW HER APPLES (1945)

Starring Ann Miller, William Wright, Robert Williams, Ray Walker, Charles D. Brown
Directed by Will Jason

Print: black/white
Runtime: 64 min.
Genre: musical
Print quality: A

Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her
manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las
Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by
hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but
everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped
convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good
graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then
decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has
entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.

YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT

Starring June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford, Paul Gilbert, Jim Backus
Directed by Dick Powell

Print: color
Runtime: 95 min.
Genre: musical
Print quality: A

You Can't Run Away From It is a musical remake of Frank Capra's Oscar-winning classic It
Happened One Night complete with same-named characters and word-for-word scene reconstructions. It all begins when
spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (June Allyson) is literally kidnapped from the altar by her
wealthy father (Charles Bickford). Escaping from her daddy's yacht with only a handful of
clothes and minimal finances, Ellie hops a bus, intending to travel cross-country to be
reunited with her fortune-hunting husband. Reporter Peter Warne (Jack Lemmon), sensing
a swell newspaper story, tags along. Though Peter and Ellie aren't terribly fond of one
another (that's putting it mildly!), by the end of their journey they've fallen in love — but there
are still several last-minute complications before a happy ending can be reached. Most of
the musical numbers in the remake are awkwardly inserted during the more famous
scenes from the Capra original: the "Walls of Jericho," the impromptu singalong on the bus,
the hitchhiking bit, etc. Benefiting from the breezy performances of Jack Lemmon and June
Allyson, You Can't Run Away From It is easy to take, but hardly within shouting distance of
the original film's brilliance.