Run, Man, Run
| Run, Man, Run | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Sergio Sollima |
| Produced by |
Alvaro Mancori Anna Maria Chretien |
| Screenplay by |
Sergio Sollima Pompeo De Angelis |
| Story by | Sergio Sollima |
| Starring |
Tomas Milian Donal O'Brien Linda Veras John Ireland Chelo Alonso |
| Music by |
Bruno Nicolai Uncredited: Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Guglielmo Mancori |
| Edited by | Tatiana Casini Morigi |
Production company |
Mancori–Chretien |
| Distributed by | Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico |
Release date | 29 August 1968 |
Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country |
Italy France |
| Language | Italian |
| Box office | 1,000,146,000 ITL (Italy)[1] |
Run, Man, Run (Italian: Corri uomo corri, also known as Big Gundown 2) is an Italian-French Zapata Western film. It is the second film of Sergio Sollima centred on the character of Cuchillo, again played by Tomas Milian, after the two-years earlier successful western The Big Gundown. It is also the final chapter of the political-western trilogy of Sollima, and his last spaghetti western.[2] According to the same Sollima, Run, Man, Run is the most politic, the most revolutionary and even anarchic among his movies.[3]
Plot
When Cuchillo returns to his hometown in Mexico he soon finds himself in prison, sharing a cell with desperado Ramirez. Thus he's present when Ramirez breaks out. He accompanies his new buddy who is killed little later by bandits. Cuchillo learns that Ramirez once rode with Benito Juárez. The killers believe Ramirez knew the whereabouts of a 3 million dollars hidden by Juarez. Now that Ramirez is dead they presume he has bequeathed his secret to Cuchillo. But Cuchillo makes it hard on them to catch him.
Cast
- Tomas Milian: Manuel "Cuchillo" Sanchez
- Donald O'Brien (as Donal O'Brien): Nathaniel Cassidy
- Linda Veras: Penny Bannington
- John Ireland: Santillana
- Chelo Alonso: Dolores
- Marco Guglielmi: Colonel Michel Sévigny
- José Torres: Ramirez
- Luciano Rossi (as Edward Ross): Jean-Paul
- Nello Pazzafini: Riza
- Gianni Rizzo: Mayor Christopher Bannington
- Dante Maggio (as Dan May): Mateos Gonzalez
- Noé Murayama: Pablo
- Attilio Dottesio: Manuel Etchevaria
- Orso Maria Guerrini: Raul
- Federico Boido: Steve Wilkins
- Calisto Calisti: Fernando Lopez
Soundtrack
For contractual reasons, Nicolai is credited with the film's music, but Ennio Morricone actually composed it.[4]
References
- ↑ Fisher, Austin (2014). Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema. I.B.Tauris. p. 220.
- ↑ Antonio Bruschini. Western all'italiana: The specialists. Glittering images, 1998. pp. 68–70. ISBN 88-8275-034-5.
- ↑ Christian Uva, Michele Picchi. Destra e sinistra nel cinema italiano. Edizioni Interculturali S.r.l., 2006. p. 223. ISBN 88-88375-66-X.
- ↑ Run, Man, Run (Run Man Run: 35 Years Running) (DVD). Los Angeles, California: Blue Underground. 1968.