Product Details

• Actors: Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer, Peter van Eyck, Juan García
• Directors: Roy Boulting
• Producers: Run for the Sun
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: RsR Multimedia
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EIZS28
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,823 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Filmed in Mexico, Run for the Sun was the second official remake of Richard Connell's classic suspense yarn The Most Dangerous Game. This time, Trevor Howard stars as Browne, the wealthy hermit who thrives on hunting down human beings like wild animals. As a means of updating the story, Howard is transformed into a British traitor, hiding in the Mexican jungle with his wartime compatriots, Nazis Van Anders (Peter Van Eyck) and Jan (Carlos Henning). When their plane is forced to land in Browne's domain, Mike Latimer (Richard Widmark) and Katy Conners (Jane Greer) are captured by the villains. Browne offers his captives an hour's head-start to freedom, then sics his hunting dogs on the hapless pair. The rest of the film details the strenuous efforts by Latimer and Conners to escape with their lives. ...Run for the Sun

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Classic, December 13, 2007

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J. Tilton (alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Run for the Sun [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ] (DVD)

Another Great Classic worthy of any collection... holds up through the years for action and adventure... which it would come out in U.S. Region format soon.....

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Adventure and thrills, May 6, 2008

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Drosophila - See all my reviews

This review is from: Run for the Sun [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ] (DVD)

This is a great, old-fashioned adventure thriller with terrific locaton filming which adds a real air of authenticity to the whole proceedings. The DVD is bare-bones but great quality - anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1 taken from a very nice, sharp, colourful print free of defects.

If you love old British adventure movies like this and "Northwest Frontier", check this one out. It's dirty, sweaty and gritty, and always entertaining.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Run for the Sun", with Richard Widmark, September 15, 2011

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Bob the Cartoonist - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Run for the Sun [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ] (DVD)

For many, many years this was my all-time favorite movie! As time went by, so many other great action movies came out that this one moved done my list a bit, but it's STILL near the top...and I own over 2000 movies, and see about three new ones per week....so that's saying quite a bit. This is directed by Roy Boulting (who was Hayley Mills' first husband), but like many of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, this film tells the story of one man facing the odds alone! It's the story of a famous award winning writer, who after the war (WWII) decides he wants to get away from the rat race and goes to central Mexico to get away from all the hub-bub of the business world. A woman journalist is sent by her famous magazine employer to try and track him down and get his 'story' on why he disappeared like he did. She finds him and he is allusive as ever and won't cooperate with her wishes for his story. They're attracted to each other, but she finally gives up on her story and he agrees to fly her to Mexico City in his old Piper Cub plane, so she can go back to New York City. But her magnetic note pad in her purse fouls the plane's compass and then all hell breaks loose! I won't go into details, but what follows is a FABULOUS story and the details are amazing. She learns more about his war past and their adventure together is incredibly exciting!

By the way, I've looked for this movie for literally DECADES on VHS and I've NEVER been able to find a commercial copy anywhere! My only copy was a homemade VHS I taped off of TBS Atlanta. Crappy copy, with commercials still in it! I FINALLY saw this Spanish/Mexican DVD on Amazon, which is totally all in English and great quality! It plays on all my DVD players and is wide screen. Make sure you're getting a copy that will play on U.S. machines!