The Gun Runners (1958)

Directed by

Don Siegel

Genre

drama film, action film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A charter boat captain who is short on cash becomes a smuggler for Cuban revolutionaries. He navigates dangerous waters and moral compromises as he tries to make a living.

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What happens

The Gun Runners is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Donald Siegel. It is the third adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not (after 1944's To Have and Have Not and 1950's The Breaking Point), and stars Audie Murphy as a down-on-his-luck charter boat captain who begins smuggling guns for Cuban revolutionaries. Don Siegel, writing about the film in his memoirs, reflected, "There’s an old adage; never make a sea picture with a C budget." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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