Corri uomo corri (1968)

Director:

Sergio Sollima

Writers:

Pompeo De Angelis (screenplay)
Sergio Sollima (screenplay)

Release Date:

September 1969 (Austria)

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:

Beautiful Woman | Spaghetti Western | Gold | Gunfighter | Mexican

Cast

Tomas Milian	...	Manuel Sanchez aka 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 (USA)
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:

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

Company:

Chretien

Movie Connections:

Featured in Western, Italian Style (1968) (TV)

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.