HE RAN ALL THE WAY
(United Artists) PRODUCED by Bob Roberts, and directed by John Berry, this study of a psychopathic young hoodlum who fumbles a payroll robbery, kills a policeman, then forces a working-class family (at the pistol-point) to shelter him through one tingling week-end, proved a great deal better than I expected it to be. There are a number of touches in both acting and direction which have become almost clichés in this kind of production (and the last sequence in which the murderer dies in the gutter by the car in which he meant to make his getaway has, I'll swear, been used before). But in general the quality of the direction is efficient and workmanlike, there is some effective photography, and as the gutter-bred tough John Garfield turns on a well thought out and generally convincing performance. More unexpected to me was the quality of performance put on by Shelley Winters (thoroughly de-glam-ourised), as the vacuous factory-girl who unwittingly introduces the criminal into her own home. He Ran All the Way is by no means in championship class, but it will hold your attention and may even make you think a little about America’s home-grown problems,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 20
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200HE RAN ALL THE WAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 20
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