Run for the Sun (1956)

Directed by

Roy Boulting

Genre

drama film, action film, adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

12

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A reclusive novelist and a journalist are hunted by two Nazi war criminals hiding in the Mexican jungle. The pursuers want to stop the pair from exposing their location.

suspensefultenseadventurousfast-paceddangeroussurvivaljunglethrilling

What happens

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). 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. Connell was credited for his short story. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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