- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Release: 1945-03-15
- Director: Christy Cabanne
- Writers: Christy Cabanne , Robert Lee Johnson
- Language: French | English
- Stars: Dave O’Brien , Kay Aldridge , Walter Catlett , Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams , Isabel Randolph , Smith Ballew , Nancy June Robinson , Ruth Lee , Chester Clute , Vivien Oakland
- Runtime: 70 min
- Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
- AKA: Homem Solitário (Brazil) , Es necesario el matrimonio (Mexico) , The Man Who Walked Alone , The Man Who Walked Alone (United States of America)
- Plot: Marion Scott, honorably discharged WW II soldier, in "civies" and carrying a suitcase containing his uniform and medals, is hitch-hiking to the small hometown of a buddy killed overseas, intending to make it his home. En-route, he encounters wealthy society girl Wilhelmina Hammond, who is running away from her stuffed-shirt fiancée, Alvin Bailey and has taken his car without permission. Marion and Wilhelmina are bickering over a blow-out and an empty gas tank when the local cops appear and haul them off to jail on a car-theft charge. Wilhelmina establishes her identity and is released and, intrigued by Marion whom she suspects is a deserter, arranges his release also. She takes him to the Hammond estate and tells Marion, who does not know her true identity, she is Mrs. Hammond's secretary. Wilhelmina has no keys to the home and they are arrested again when they are caught crawling into the house through a window. This time reporters and photographers discover her identity and plaster the papers with a story of an heiress running out on her rich fiancée to take up with an unknown stranger. Over the objections of the Hammond caretaker, Wiggins, she hires Marion as a chauffeur and stands her ground when her irate mother and angry fiancée rush home from New York with their entourage, including: Aunt Harriet, an old maid who had an unfortunate love affair during WW I; Patricia, "Willie's" young and mischievous sister; Camille, the family dressmaker, and Champ, Alvin's physical instructor. It becomes a battle of wills as Mrs. Hammond and Alvin are determined to break up a romance that doesn't exist, as "Willie" and Marion are constantly bickering, and Aunt Harriet who is all for the pair getting together.
- IMDB:tt0037893
The Man Who Walked Alone Cast · · · ALL
Christy Cabanne
Director
Dave O’Brien
Marion Scott
Kay Aldridge
Wilhelmina Hammond
Walter Catlett
Wiggins
Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams
Champ
Isabel Randolph
Mrs. Hammond
Smith Ballew
Alvin Bailey
Nancy June Robinson
Patricia Hammond
Ruth Lee
Aunt Harriett
Chester Clute
Herman Monroe
Vivien Oakland
Mrs. Monroe
William B. Davidson
Governor
Dick Elliott
Mayor
Charles Williams
Reporter
Frank Melton
Glem
Donald Kerr
Zilch
Eddy Waller
Farmer
Don Brodie
Desk Sergeant #1
Jack Raymond
Taxicab Driver
Jack Mulhall
Policeman #1
Charles Jordan
Policeman #2
Tom Kennedy
Officer #1
Paul Newlan
Officer #2
Lloyd Ingraham
Ryan
Elmo Lincoln
Turnkey
Mira McKinney
Jail Matron