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The Running Man

The Running Man

6,7 /10 (47 Votes)
1963 EN 103 min

Overview

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.

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Release date

01/10/1963

Votes

47

Popularity

0.6

Time is Running Out for the Running Man...And His Woman!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

103 min

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John Chard

John Chard

2020-04-18

⭐ 7

You love it, don't you? I mean, you love taking risks and teasing him because you think he's trying to catch you. The Running Man is directed by Carol Reed and is adapted to screenplay by John Mortimer from the novel "The Ballad of the Running Man" written by Shelley Smith. It stars Lee Remick, Laurence Harvey and Alan Bates. Music is by William Alwyn and cinematography by Robert Krasker. Miffed about missing out on an insurance pay out due to a financial technicality, Rex (Harvey) decides to get his own back. He takes out a massive policy and fakes his own death, which subsequently see…

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moviesteve

2022-07-17

Say The Running Man and most people think of a not particularly good Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi/action movie from 1987. But there is another one, from 1963, starring Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick and Alan Bates, and it’s all about a man who gets a sniff of money and it drives him nuts. The action kicks off in London, where grieving widow Stella (Remick) is making a great show of burying her much loved husband, who recently died in a glider accident off the south coast. But Rex (Harvey) isn’t dead, and the staged accident was part of a scheme to get one over on the insurance company who had…

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