Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

a_chinn Exciting and suspenseful reworking of "The Most Dangerous Game" has Richard Widmark as a reclusive Hemingway-like writer living in Mexico and Jane Greer as a magazine reporter trying to find out why he stopped writing. Two find themselves stranded in the jungle after their plane crashes. They happen upon a remote compound with some friendly European gentlemen, except that these gentlemen really aren't so friendly and SPOILER ALERT! are Nazi and Russian war criminals who then want to hunt Widmark and Greer for sport. Tone can be difficult with these human-hunting-human stories, where it can easily become ridiculous (i.e. "Hart Target"), but this film gets it right and I'll credit the smart script co-written by Dudley Nichols, who wrote everything from "Bringing Up Baby" to "Stagecoach." The story moves along at a good clip, with Widmark growing increasingly suspicious of his hosts, and has some solid action and suspense once the hunt begins. FUN FACT: According to IMDB, Richard Widmark thought this was one of his worst films and used to tell his kids that if they didn't behave themselves, they'd have to watch " Run for the Sun".

JohnHowardReid While some of Jane Greer's film work could justly be described as lackluster, a few of her performances can only be labeled downright inept. Worst of all was her attempt to recreate Mary Astor's girlfriend-of-the-wicked-prince in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1952 "The Prisoner of Zenda". Aside from the abysmal Jane, that re- make is actually quite entertaining. Most of the players take an infectious delight in sending the silly story up, but Jane flounders embarrassingly. How come? She once explained: "Mr Thorpe, the director, wanted me to repeat Mary Astor's interpretation. Every day, he had me study her performance on a movieola. That's why I was so bad. Never once did he let me know that the rest of the cast were playing tongue-in-cheek." Jane did redeem this lapse in a later, but now sadly neglected movie in which she played opposite Richard Widmark, "Run for the Sun" (1956). Jane turned in a taut, engrossing performance as an intelligent writer on assignment in Mexico. Her plane is forced down in the steamy jungle and she finds herself the prey of two sadistic madmen in this re- make of "The Most Dangerous Game". In an unusual, but effective piece of casting, the Leslie Banks role was played by Trevor Howard, the first of only three occasions in which he played a totally unsympathetic character on the big screen. (The others: Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty and Lord Cardigan in The Charge of the Light Brigade). Peter Van Eyck played Howard's accomplice in the hunt with his usual assurance, while director Roy Boulting handled the locations with plenty of skill. In a recent theatrical revival, the wide-screen print had audiences on the edges of their seats during the fast- paced climax.Aside from "Run for the Sun", "Out of the Past" and five or six other films, Jane Greer rarely acquired the roles she deserved. Twice under contract to Howard Hughes, she bought him out both times in an effort to find better parts. She was not overly successful. Partly because she was unable to come to terms with her somewhat frozen features and so-called "Mona Lisa smile" (the result of Bell's Palsy). Not exactly a face to frame either a glamour cutie or girl-next-door, but fascinating, interesting, enigmatic — admirably suited to her enduring screen personality of the hard, impassive, unfathomable, self- serving but alluringly irresistible femme fatale.A pity there were not a lot more roles of similar quality, but she did have a few. Although the world will always remember her Out of the Past, she did also have "The Big Steal" and "Run for the Sun".Born Bettejane Greer in Washington, D.C. on 9 September 1924, she died in semi-retirement at her Los Angeles home on Friday, 24 August 2001..

MartinHafer Mike Latimer (Richard Widmark) is a famous novelist who's dropped out of circulation. A reporter (Jane Greer) is undercover--trying to wrangle an exclusive interview with this mercurial man. However, although she is able to make contact with him and befriend him, he doesn't know she's a reporter. What they both don't know is that the plane he's flying them in across the Central American jungle is going to conk out...and leave them stranded in the middle of no where. Does it sound like it couldn't get any worse? Well, it can. Although they are saved from the wreckage, their benefactors turn out to be Nazis hiding out in the jungle and they're not about to let the pair escape if they can help it. Soon, it's a long and torturous trek through the unforgiving jungle...with these nasty jerks in hot pursuit.While this isn't one of Widmark's very best films, it is quite good and the Nazi theme worked since it was only about a dozen years since the war ended. Tense, well crafted and well worth seeing. Besides, Greer nearly died making this film....so don't you owe it to her sacrifice to see the movie?!I originally planned on giving this film an 8...it's really good. But near the end, Latimer takes out one of the baddies and then doesn't bother picking up the guy's gun as he makes his escape. This simply makes no sense and annoyed me.By the way, early on you see the reporter looking through a magazine with a cover story about Latimer. While the magazine looks a lot like LOOK magazine, its name is SIGHT....a rather clever little play on words.

writers_reign Given that there are only seven basic plots it seems foolish to spend so much time both alleging and rebutting the connection (or non) between Run For The Sun and The Most Dangerous Game aka The Hounds Of Zaroff. Over the years there have been several films involving an isolated house, an eccentric/insane owner who lures - or waits for the genuinely lost - travellers to his bailiwick, entertains them royally for a short time then explains the way back to the civilised world, gives them a reasonably start and then goes in pursuit with a pack of hounds. This is, of course, a sound basis for a thriller and begs variations. In Run For The Sun Trevor Howard is a William Joyce (Lord 'Haw Haw') who, unlike the original, escaped the hangman's noose and holed up in a Mexican jungle. Richard Widmark and Jane Greer, flying in Widmark's plane to Acapulco, veer off course, run out of gas, and crash not too far from Howard's home. Once Widmark figures out who Howard is and realises there's no way Howard can afford to let them go, he goes on the lam with Greer with Howard and a pack of dogs on their trail. It's competent, Widmark is invariably good value and Greer is good to look at. What's not to like.