The Road to Reno
Cast & Crew
S. Sylvan Simon
Randolph Scott
Hope Hampton
Glenda Farrell
Alan Marshal
Helen Broderick
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
After a final New York performance, opera singer Linda Halliday boards a train bound for Reno, where she intends to divorce her ranch owner husband, Steve Fortness, with whom she did not live because he protested her career. On the train, Linda meets Sylvia Shane, a divorcée on her way for her fourth divorce, who offers to help Linda through the process. Steve meets Linda at the station and, shocked to hear her unexpected news, refuses to consent to a divorce, but is forced to leave with his friend, Mike, when he learns that his horses have stampeded and scattered. The horses scatter a second time when Linda and Sylvia make a surprise visit by plane to serve Steve with process papers. Incensed that he has lost his horses, Steve drains the fuel from the plane, forcing Linda and Sylvia to ride back to his ranch. Steve and Linda continue to argue until finally he informs her that because his ranch is actually in California, she is legally unable to divorce him without his consent. While Steve is away trying to get a loan, Linda and Steve's aunt Minerva, who owns a controlling interest in the ranch, turn his ranch into a dude ranch, replete with divorcées and "grass widows." Minerva secretly hopes to bring Linda and Steve together again, but Steve is exasperated by the new atmosphere and, with the help of Mike, tries to make Linda and Sylvia uncomfortable. Nonetheless, Linda falls in love again with Steve and wires her fiancé Walter to call off their impending marriage. Before she can tell Steve of her decision, however, she finds that Sylvia has been alone with him and becomes wildly jealous. Walter arrives, not having received the telegram, and Linda proceeds with her original plan, with a rivalry between the two men ensuing. Steve discovers his herd in a high mountain pass and, with the help of Walter's plane, stampedes them toward home. Unfortunately, the plane runs out of fuel and Steve and Linda are stranded in a cabin. By the time they leave, Steve is so disgusted by Linda that he, too, sues for divorce. Once granted, however, Steve and Linda realize they still love one another and reconcile.
Director
S. Sylvan Simon
Cast
Randolph Scott
Hope Hampton
Glenda Farrell
Alan Marshal
Helen Broderick
David Oliver
Samuel S. Hinds
Spencer Charters
Charles Murphy
Ted Osborne
Dorothy Farley
Mira Mckinney
Renie Riano
Crew
Harold Adamson
Bernard B. Brown
Roy Chanslor
Charles H. Clarke
Adele Comandini
Edmund Grainger
F. Hugh Herbert
Vernon Keays
Paul Landres
Jimmy Mchugh
Jack Otterson
Charles Previn
George Robinson
Vera West
Maurice Wright
Film Details
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Notes
This film marks Hope Hampton's sound film debut. A news item in Daily Variety notes that Mischa Auer, Alice Brady and Louis Hayward were considered for roles in the film. According to the Hollywood Reporter review, excerpts from Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohême are heard in the film.
