He Ran All the Way
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| Directed by | John Berry |
| Produced by | Bob Roberts |
| Screenplay by | Hugo Butler Dalton Trumbo |
| Based on | the novel by Sam Ross (Dalton Trumbo's alias) |
| Starring | John Garfield Shelley Winters |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Edited by | Francis D. Lyon |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1 million (US rentals)[1] |
He Ran All the Way is a 1951 American crime drama film noir, directed by John Berry and featuring John Garfield, Shelley Winters and Wallace Ford.[2]
The film was Garfield's last, as accusations of his involvement with the Communist Party and a refusal to name names while testifying before the HUAC led to his blacklisting in Hollywood. 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 Hollywood blacklisting during the Red Scare.
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
- John Garfield as Nick Robey
- Shelley Winters as Peg Dobbs
- Wallace Ford as Mr. Dobbs
- Selena Royle as Mrs. Dobbs
- Gladys George as Mrs. Robey
- Norman Lloyd as Al Molin
- Bobby Hyatt as Tommy Dobbs
- Keith Hetherington as Captain of Detectives
Reception
Critical response
When the film was released, film critic Bosley Crowther praised the work of actor John Garfield, writing: "John Garfield's stark performance of the fugitive who desperately contrives to save himself briefly from capture is full of startling glints from start to end. He makes a most odd and troubled creature, unused to the normal flow of life, unable to perceive the moral standards of decent people or the tentative advance of a good girl's love. And in Mr. Garfield's performance, vis-a-vis the rest of the cast, is conveyed a small measure of the irony and the pity that was in the book."[3]
More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz also wrote positively of Garfield's performance, writing: "He Ran All the Way was the last film made by the brilliant John Garfield ... Garfield gives a terrific chilling performance as someone who is less like a cold-blooded killer than someone who has been rejected all his life by family and the outside world, and like a wounded animal goes on the run as a desperate man in search of someone to trust in this cold world."[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1951', Variety, January 2, 1952.
- ↑ He Ran All the Way at the TCM Movie Database.
- ↑ Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, June 21, 1951. Accessed: July 16, 2013.
- ↑ Schwartz, Dennis. Ozus' World Movie Reviews, film review, December 16, 2004. Accessed: July 16, 2013.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). He Ran All the Way at IMDb
- He Ran All the Way at AllMovie
- He Ran All the Way at the TCM Movie Database
- He Ran All the Way informational site and DVD review at DVD Beaver (includes images)
- He Ran All the Way film scene on YouTube
