He Ran All the Way

Infobox_Film
name = He Ran All the Way


imdb_id = 0043625
producer = Bob Roberts
Paul Trivers
director = John Berry
writer = Sam Ross (novel)
Hugo Butler
Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)
starring = John Garfield
Shelley Winters
music = Franz Waxman
cinematography = James Wong Howe
editing = Francis D. Lyon
distributor = United Artists
released = June 19, 1951
runtime = 77 min.
language = English

"He Ran All the Way" is a 1951 crime drama, considered a film noir, starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters. The film was Garfield's last as heart problems forced him to end his career. He died less than a year later, at age thirty-nine, from coronary thrombosis due to a blood clot blocking an artery in his heart. During the film's initial run, director John Berry and writers Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler were uncredited due to blacklisting during the Red Scare. The film's plot of a family held in their home by a killer on the lam has often been emulated, by such films as 1955's "The Desperate Hours".

Plot

Petty thief Nick Robey (John Garfield) botches a robbery, leaving his partner Al (Norman Lloyd) severely wounded as Nick escapes with over $10,000. Meeting bakery worker Peg Dobbs (Shelley Winters) in friendly conversation, when Peg takes Nick to her family's apartment, he decides to take the family hostage until he can escape. As a manhunt for Nick begins outside, the robber becomes increasingly paranoid. Meanwhile, Peg schemes to sacrifice herself for the safety of her family.

Cast

External links

*