The Running Man (1963)

NR10/01/1963Crime, Drama, Thriller1h 43m
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Time is Running Out for the Running Man...And His Woman!

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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    Laurence Harvey

    Rex Black

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    Lee Remick

    Stella Black

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    Alan Bates

    Stephen

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    Felix Aylmer

    Parson

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    Eleanor Summerfield

    Hilda Tanner

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    Colin Gordon

    Solicitor

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    Allan Cuthbertson

    Jenkins

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    Harold Goldblatt

    Tom Webster

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    Noel Purcell

    Miles Bleeker

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...