The Running Man (Original title)The Ballad of the Running Man (Working title)
Dates: 1963 (Copyright), 17 July 1962 (Production), 06 October 1963 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Carol Reed
Synopsis: A fake glider crash and disappearance of the pilot is arranged by Rex Black and his wife, Stella, to claim £50,000 insurance money. Stella later meets Rex, as arranged, in Spain posing as an Australian millionaire. Rex plans another coup but is disconcerted by the arrival of Stephen Wade from the insurance company, apparently on holiday, who seems to be following them. Stella and Stephen begin to fall in love and Stephen assures her that he really is on holiday. Having got the money, Rex determines to escape and when Stephen follows in his car, runs him over a cliff. Stella, horrified, gets out at Customs and Rex drives on to steal a plane from the airfield which crashes into the sea.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 06 October 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 103 mins Length: 9324 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1963 (Copyright), 17 July 1962 (Production), 06 October 1963 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Carol Reed
Synopsis: A fake glider crash and disappearance of the pilot is arranged by Rex Black and his wife, Stella, to claim £50,000 insurance money. Stella later meets Rex, as arranged, in Spain posing as an Australian millionaire. Rex plans another coup but is disconcerted by the arrival of Stephen Wade from the insurance company, apparently on holiday, who seems to be following them. Stella and Stephen begin to fall in love and Stephen assures her that he really is on holiday. Having got the money, Rex determines to escape and when Stephen follows in his car, runs him over a cliff. Stella, horrified, gets out at Customs and Rex drives on to steal a plane from the airfield which crashes into the sea.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 06 October 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 103 mins Length: 9324 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: Ltd. Peet Productions, Production Company: Ltd. Peet Productions, Presents: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Produced by: Carol Reed, Associate Producer: John R. Sloan, Unit Manager: John Quested, Spanish Production Manager: Roberto Roberts, Production Supervisor: John Dark, [Production Secretary]: Betty Parry, 2nd Unit Direction: Harold Haysom, Assistant Director: Peter Bolton, Assistant Director: Pedro Vidal, [2nd Assistant Director]: Kits Browning, Terry Lens, [3rd Assistant Director]: Michael Purcell, Continuity: Angela Allen, Screenplay by: John Mortimer, From the novel 'The Ballad of the Running Man' by: Shelley Smith, Director of Photography: Robert Krasker, Camera Director: John Harris, [Focus Puller]: James Devis, [2nd Unit Focus Puller]: Bernard Ford, David Kelly, [Clapper/Loader]: Michael Drew, [Still Cameraman]: Tom Edwards, Editor: Bert Bates, [1st Assistant Editor]: Jeremy Saunders, [Assistant Editor]: Ian Crafford, Art Director: John Stoll, Assistant Art Director: Herbert Smith, [Draughtsman]: Roy Stannard, [Draughtsman]: Tony Rimington, Arden Gantley, [Scenic Artist]: Ted Barnes, Make-up: George Frost, Hairdresser: George Scott, Main Titles: Maurice Binder, Music by: William Alwyn, Title Music: Ron Grainer, [Music] Played by: Sinfonia of London, [Music] Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recording: Claude Hitchcock, Sound Recording: Bob Jones, [Sound Comera Operator]: Terry Hill, Liam Saurin, [Boom Operator]: Derek Kavanaugh, [Sound Maintenance]: Ken Osborne, Ray Billings, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Sound Editor: Peter Thornton, [Dubbing Editor]: Peter Thornton, [Publicity Director]: Enid Jones, Halsey Raines, Filmed at: Ardmore Studios
Cast
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Laurence Harvey (Rex Black), Lee Remick (Stella Black), Alan Bates (Stephen Maddox), Felix Aylmer (Parson), Eleanor Summerfield (Hilda Tanner), Colin Gordon (solicitor), Allan Cuthbertson (Jenkins, insurance man), Harold Goldblatt (Tom Webster), Noel Purcell (Miles Bleeker), Ramsay Ames (Madge Penderby), Fernando Rey (police official), Juan José Menéndez (Roberto), Eddie Byrne (Sam Crowdson), John Meillon (Jim Jerome, Australian sheep farmer), Roger Delgado (Spanish doctor), Fortunio Bonanova (Spanish bank manager), Shirley Gale (Florence), José Calvo (porter), Joe Lynch (Roy Tanner), Freddy Roberts (guide), Adriano Domínguez (civil guard), James Neyland (English customs official), Pamela Mant (Margaret Webster), Herbert Curiel (1st witness), Antonio Padilla Ruiz (2nd witness), Lockwood West (bank manager), Bob Cunningham (Thomas Guppy), Alphonso San Felix (customs official), María Granáda (Dianne), Rafael Albaicín (waiter), Ángel Jiménez (1st gypsy boy), Juan Jiménez (2nd gypsy boy)