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Overview

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Director:
Roy Boulting
Writers:
Roy Boulting (writer)
Richard Connell (story)
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Release Date:
30 July 1956 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure more
Tagline:
A raging animal of a man...more savage than any jungle killer! more
Plot:
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America... more | full synopsis
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User Comments:
Run With Dick and Jane more

Cast

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Richard Widmark ... Michael 'Mike' Latimer
Trevor Howard ... Browne
Jane Greer ... Katherine 'Katie' Connors
Peter van Eyck ... Dr. Van Anders aka Col. Wilham Von Andre
Juan García ... Fernandez
José Antonio Carbajal ... Paco
José Chávez ... Pedro (as José Chávez Trowe)
Guillermo Calles ... Paco
Margarito Luna ... Gran-Hotel Proprietor
Guillermo Bravo Sosa ... Gran-Hotel Waiter
Enedina Díaz de León ... Paco's Wife
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Additional Details

Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Filming Locations:
Mexico

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Trivia:
Jane Greer contracted a tropical virus during the location shooting of this film which eventually required her to have a heart operation. more
Quotes:
Katie: Was she very pretty?
Latimore: Who?
Katie: Your wife.
Latimore: I don't know Katie, I forgot.
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Movie Connections:
Version of Mindhunters (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Triste ranchero more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Run With Dick and Jane, 21 October 2005
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Richard Widmark, a Hemingway type writer who craves the solitude of J.D. Salinger, is found in an obscure Mexican village by Jane Greer. Jane's a reporter for a tattletale magazine, but Widmark doesn't find this out till they've started kanoodling. He offers to fly her back to Mexico City.

While enroute they go off course and crash in the jungle. They come upon an Englishman and a Dutch archaeologist, so they say. In reality it's a diplomat who was a member of the pro-Nazi Cliveden set and who defected during World War II. The Dutchman with him is really a former Wehrmacht high officer and his brother-in-law.

Trevor Howard and Peter Van Eyck don't want word of their secret to get out so Widmark and Greer have to die. Now starts the chase through the jungle like The Most Dangerous Game.

Of course this is a remake of that film, but the characters are a bit more complex. Widmark's an alcoholic writer who craves his privacy as much as Howard and Van Eyck do. Greer's a reporter who's gone after Widmark's story and now has an even bigger one potentially.

In the original film it was more of a morality play. Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks were certainly classical hero and villain respectively and Fay Wray was not the independent woman that Greer is.

Still this is a good remake helped a lot by the outdoor locations instead of RKO's backlot jungle.

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