Run for the Sun
1956 film released by United Artists / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Run for the Sun is a 1956 American Technicolor thriller adventure film released by United Artists, the third film to officially be based on Richard Connell's classic 1924 suspense story, "The Most Dangerous Game", after both RKO's The Most Dangerous Game (1932), and their remake, A Game of Death (1945).[2] This version stars Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, and Jane Greer, and was directed by Ray Boulting from a script written by Boulting and Dudley Nichols.[3] Connell was credited for his short story.[4]
Run for the Sun | |
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Directed by | Roy Boulting |
Written by | Dudley Nichols Roy Boulting |
Based on | "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell |
Produced by | Robert Waterfield Harry Tatelman |
Starring | Richard Widmark Trevor Howard Jane Greer Peter van Eyck |
Cinematography | Joseph La Shelle |
Edited by | Frederic Knudtson |
Music by | Fred Steiner |
Production company | Russ-Field Corporation |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.25 million (US)[1] |
In this loose adaptation, the expatriate Russian general of the original story is transformed into a British traitor hiding in the Mexican jungle with a fellow Nazi war criminal played by Peter van Eyck. Their prey are Widmark, portraying a Hemingway-like but reclusive novelist, and Greer, playing a magazine journalist who has tracked down the novelist's whereabouts. In this version, the Nazis are hunting them not for sport, but to prevent them revealing their whereabouts.