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Overview
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Writers:
Shelley Smith (novel)
John Mortimer (screenplay)
Release Date:
October 1963 (USA) more
Tagline:
Time is Running Out for the Running Man...And His Woman! more
Plot:
Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
NewsDesk:
Actor Alan Bates Dies at 69
(From IMDb News. 28 December 2003)
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Dim, would-be thriller treads familiar ground... more (12 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Laurence Harvey | ... | Rex Black |
 | Lee Remick | ... | Stella Black |
 | Alan Bates | ... | Stephen |
| Felix Aylmer | ... | Parson |
| Eleanor Summerfield | ... | Hilda Tanner |
| Allan Cuthbertson | ... | Jenkins |
| Harold Goldblatt | ... | Tom Webster |
| Noel Purcell | ... | Miles Bleeker |
| Ramsay Ames | ... | Madge Penderby |
| Fernando Rey | ... | Police Official |
| Juanjo Menéndez | ... | Roberto (as Juan Jose Menendez) |
| Eddie Byrne | ... | Sam Crewdson |
| Colin Gordon | ... | Solicitor |
| John Meillon | ... | Jim Jerome |
| Roger Delgado | ... | Spanish Doctor |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Carol Reed's The Running Man
The Ballad of the Running Man (International: English title)
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Runtime:
103 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
UK:A | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:G | Finland:K-12
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Last film score of William Alwyn more
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Revealing mistakes: Just after Stephen is pulled from his wrecked car, we see that the tree that has been holding the car back from careening over the cliff has been neatly chopped with an ax at the base. more
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Referenced in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) more
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A nosy British insurance investigator dogs a recently-widowed woman and her "boyfriend" in Spain; the couple is on the run after bilking the insurance company out of a fortune and don't know for certain whether their newly-acquired friend is onto them or not. Carol Reed-directed drama needed more paranoia-excitement or suspense. As it is, the three leads (Alan Bates, Lee Remick, and Laurence Harvey--looking impossibly skinny) are perpetually stuck in a fog, playing a tepid game of cat-and-mouse that seems fraught with errors (by the characters and the screenwriter). From Shelley Smith's book "The Ballad of the Running Man", and not helped by Reed's lack of grip on the narrative (he seems much more interested in the local Spanish flavor). ** from ****