Cross-Country Romance (1940)
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Directors
Frank Woodruff
Cast
Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie
The story
High-profile heiress Diane North stows away in the trailer of a bacteriologist Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Smith to escape from her own wedding. Larry has to drive cross country to San Francisco to catch a ship to China, where he will work with an eminent expert on a cure for a serious disease.
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romantic comedy
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