Corri uomo corri (1968)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Sergio Sollima

Writers:

Pompeo De Angelis (screenplay)
Sergio Sollima (screenplay)

Release Date:

29 August 1968 (Italy)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Western

Plot:

Several competing groups and mavericks (including the lead character Cuchillo) are hunting a gold treasure of $3,000,000. The gold was reserved for the Mexican revolution. |

Plot Keywords:

Gold | Maverick | Mexican | Mexican Revolution | Outlaw Gang

Cast

Tomas Milian	...	Manuel Sanchez / Cuchillo
Donald O'Brien	...	Nathaniel Cassidy (as Donal O'Brien)
John Ireland	...	Santillana
Linda Veras	...	Penny Bannington
Marco Guglielmi	...	Colonel Michel Sévigny
José Torres	...	Ramirez
Luciano Rossi	...	Jean-Paul (as Edwin G. Ross)
Nello Pazzafini	...	Riza
Gianni Rizzo	...	The Mayor
Dante Maggio	...	Mateos Gonzalez (as Dan May)
Umberto Di Grazia
Noé Murayama	...	Pablo
Attilio Dottesio	...	Manuel Etchevaria
Orso Maria Guerrini	...	Raul
Federico Boido	...	Steve Wilkins (as Rick Boyd)

Also Known As:

Big Gundown 2: Run, Man, Run (USA) (promotional title)
Run, Man, Run (International: English title)
Saludos, hombre (France)

Runtime:

120 min | West Germany:101 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Iceland:16 | West Germany:18 (nf) | Germany:12 | UK:12

Company:

Chretien

Trivia:

Director Sergio Sollima said on the DVD extras of the movie that it was in fact Ennio Morricone that scored the music for the film. Sergio Sollima said Morricone's conductor Bruno Nicolai got the credit probably because Morricone was tied up at another studio at the time and didn't want any trouble.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Red Dead Revolver (2004) (VG)

Great And Humorous Sequel To The Big Gundown

Sergio Sollima's "Corri, Uomo, Corri" aka. "Run, Man, Run!" of 1968 is a great and very funny sequel to his 1966 masterpiece "La Resa Dei Conti" aka. "The Big Gundown". As Sollimas two other Westerns, this is once again a quite political film, but unlike "The Big Gundown" and "Face To Face", it is so humorous, that it could actually be described as a Spaghetti Western Comedy.

After a dying revolutionary entrusts the hideout of a fortune to him, Mexican petty thief and excellent knife thrower Cuchillo (Tomas Milian, who already played Cuchillo in "The Big Gundown") is chased through the Mexican/Texan borderland by a gang of Mexian bandits, two French mercenaries, who work for the Mexican government, and Nathaniel Cassidy (Donal O'Brien), an American gunslinger who, although primarily interested in money, still has some of his former ideals left. Furthermore Cuchillo is constantly followed by his loving girlfriend Dolores (beautiful Chelo Alonso), who is sexy and passionate, but also very jealous and short-tempered. On his run, Chuchillo first meets, and travels with a pretty blonde Salvation Army activist called Penny (Linda Veras), much to Dolores' disfavor, and later teams up with Cassidy against their mutual enemies.

The acting in this movie is great, especially Tomas Milian (one of my favorite actors) and Donal O'Brien deliver excellent performances as the two main characters. The supporting cast is also very good, the legendary John Ireland has a small role as a the leader of a Mexican revolutionary squad. The cinematography is great, and so is the music by Bruno Nicolai and Ennio Morricone. Many scenes in movie are very memorable, some of them very funny , a Mexican bandit gang leader orders his wife to hold off on giving birth to their child for a few days for example, because he doesn't want his son to be a "Gringo" born in the US, and the French hit men played by Luciano Rossi and Marco Guglielmi are two very satirical villains.

Maybe not quite as brilliant as "The Big Gundown", but still an excellent movie, "Run, Man, Run!" is a witty, great and very entertaining Spaghetti Western, a must see for genre-fans, but also recommended to everybody else.