Run, Man, Run (1968)

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.

Director:

Sergio Sollima

Writers:

Sergio Sollima (story), Sergio Sollima (screenplay)

Stars:

Tomas Milian, Donald O'Brien, Linda Veras

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tomas Milian	...	Manuel 'Cuchillo' Sanchez
Donald O'Brien	...	Nathaniel Cassidy (as Donal O'Brien)
Linda Veras	...	Penny Bannington
Marco Guglielmi	...	Colonel Michel Sévigny
José Torres	...	Ramirez
Luciano Rossi	...	Jean-Paul (as Edward Ross)
Nello Pazzafini	...	Riza
Gianni Rizzo	...	Mayor Christopher Bannington
Dante Maggio	...	Mateos Gonzalez (as Dan May)
Umberto Di Grazia	...	José
Noé Murayama	...	Pablo
Attilio Dottesio	...	Manuel Etchevaria
Orso Maria Guerrini	...	Raul
Federico Boido	...	Steve Wilkins
Calisto Calisti	...	Fernando Lopez

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

killing a sheriff | italo western | gold | mexican revolution | maverick | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Western

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

This sequel came to be made due to the extreme popularity of the character Cuchillo Sanchez in the film The Big Gundown (1966), despite Cuchillo not being the lead in that film. Director Sergio Sollima said in an interview the reason for this is because the first time in Western film history we had a character that was a Mexican peon, a "dreamer" and a "thief", yet likable at the same time.

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Quotes

Manuel 'Cuchillo' Sanchez: Where do you think we are?
Pablo: It's difficult to say, these hills are all the same. Let's ask him, come on! Oye amigo! can you tell me wher...?
Unknown "Gringo": I ain't your amigo dirty Mexican, get outta here!
Manuel 'Cuchillo' Sanchez: ...I think we are in Texas! Gracias Señor.

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Connections

Referenced in Red Dead Revolver (2004)

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Soundtracks

Espanto Enel Corazon
Sung by Tomas Milian
Choir by Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni (uncredited)
Composed by Ennio Morricone (uncredited), Bruno Nicolai (uncredited) and Giuliano Tilesi (uncredited)
Lyrics by Peter Boom (uncredited)

User Reviews

Vila la 1968 Revolution!

Imagine an Italian western inspired by Marx - not Groucho, but KARL. Springing from the loins of the European mini-revolutions of 1968 comes a western with a conscience, courtesy of spaghetti socialist Sergio Sollima, who recycles his most memorable character from the 1967 The Big Gundown and builds an entire film around him.

Cuban-born Tomas Milian returns as Cuchillio, a wily yet endearingly naive opportunist who's quick with a knife but not so quick on the uptake. A quick spell in a border prison sees him share a cell with a seditious poet named Rodriguez, whose dying breath reveals the last resting place of a $3 million cache of revolution-bound gold. And so begins Cuchillio's journey, spreading his proto-revolutionary seed across the Texas border whilst pursued by a sleazy assortment of cutthroats and would-be revolutionaries, spaghetti western regular Donal O'Brien playing a sheriff with a conscience, two French secret agents, his jealous fiancé Dolores (played by the fiery Chelo Alonso), and a blond sergeant in the Salvation Army, a woman who sticks out of her unlikely surroundings like a turd tambourine. Cuchillio himself spends most of his screen time bound, gagged with dynamite, spreadeagled in some godforsaken location, or in one stunning sequence, strapped to the blade of a windmill. And STILL He doesn't lose his sense of humor.

Like The Good The Bad And The Ugly it's a deliberately open-ended epic quest for hidden treasure, but without Leone's grandiose scale and pretentious camera histrionics. It's more like The Wizard of Oz wrapped in a burrito, and peppered with the most random of supporting characters. The usual grimness of these spaghetti westerns is contrasted with Tomas Milian's comic timing, a rousing score by an uncredited Ennio Morricone, and a surprising cameo from veteran American actor John Ireland as a crusty, battle-scarred soldier of the class struggle.

Socialist westerns don't usually come this entertaining - come to think of it, socialists are rarely funny at all! So enjoy the picaresque, picturesque and thankfully undogmatic 1968 Run Man Run.

Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian Spanish

Release Date:

29 August 1968 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Big Gundown 2: Run, Man, Run

Filming Locations:

Desierto de Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mancori, Chretien

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1