RUN FOR THE SUN
(United Artists-Russ-Field)
G
Cert. |
| OKUM is, I suppose, the word for Run for the Sun, but it’s entertaining hokum, capably directed by Roy Boulting, with a quite distinguished cast which includes Trevor Howard, Peter van Eyck and Richard Widmark, Starting off in a Mexican township, the film quickly and very effectively establishes the first of its two main situations: a woman journalist (Jane Greer) has come looking for a story about Mike Latimer (Mr Widmark), an author who seems to. have forsaken the world, In the second situation, equally well built up, these two, after a crash landing in a jungle clearing, find themselves in the hands of two refugee Nazis and a sort of Lord Haw Haw character-Mr Howard, of course. , I would always go out of my way to see any film in which Trevor Howard appears, and for his performance alonewhat a fascinating villain) he makes!this one is worth seeing. The others give very adequate support. Some of the plot devices are cather improbable, and a chase through the tungle when Latimer and the girl try to escave is rather too long-by this time the film seems to have become a thoroughly conventional chase thriller, But on the ‘whole it’s quite exciting entertainment, well-played, generally well-scripted, and quite good to look at.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 23
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219RUN FOR THE SUN New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 23
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