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| director = [[Carol Reed]]
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| producer = Carol Reed
| producer = Carol Reed
| screenplay = [[John Mortimer]]
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| based_on = (''From the Novel'')<br>{{Based on|''The Ballad of the Running Man'' |Shelley Smith}}
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| starring = [[Laurence Harvey]]<br />[[Lee Remick]]<br />[[Alan Bates]]
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| studio = Peet Productions
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| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]
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| released = {{Film date|df=y|1963|05||United Kingdom}} {{film date|1963|10||United States}}
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'''''The Running Man''''' is a 1963 British-American [[neo noir]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Carol Reed]], starring [[Laurence Harvey]] as a man who fakes his own death in a [[Glider (sailplane)|glider]] accident, then runs into trouble when an insurance investigator starts taking a close interest.<ref>''[[Variety Film Reviews|Variety]]'' film review; 7 August 1963, page 6.</ref> It was adapted by screenwriter [[John Mortimer]] from the 1961 novel ''The Ballad of the Running Man'' by Shelley Smith.
'''''The Running Man''''' is a 1963 British-American [[neo-noir]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Carol Reed]], starring [[Laurence Harvey]] as a man who fakes his own death in a [[Glider (sailplane)|glider]] accident, then runs into trouble when an insurance investigator ([[Alan Bates]]) starts taking a close interest.<ref>''[[Variety Film Reviews|Variety]]'' film review; 7 August 1963, page 6.</ref> [[Lee Remick]] co-starred with Harvey as the man's wife. It was adapted by screenwriter [[John Mortimer]] from the 1961 novel ''The Ballad of the Running Man'' by [[Shelley Smith (writer)|Shelley Smith]].


It was filmed in [[San Roque, Cádiz]], [[La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz]] , [[Algeciras, Cádiz]], [[Spain]], [[Gibraltar]] and [[Ireland]]. The film opened at the [[Odeon Leicester Square]] in London's West End on 1 August 1963.<ref>The Times, 1 August 1963, Page 2</ref>
It was filmed in [[San Roque, Cádiz]]; [[La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz]]; [[Algeciras, Cádiz]]; [[Spain]]; [[Gibraltar]]; and [[Ireland]]. The film opened at the [[Odeon Leicester Square]] in London's [[West End of London|West End]] on 1 August 1963.<ref>The Times, 1 August 1963, Page 2</ref>

[[Lee Remick]] and [[Alan Bates]] co-starred with Harvey.


The film briefly came to the attention of the [[Warren Commission]] investigating the [[assassination of President John F. Kennedy]] because of a [[viral marketing]] campaign that placed [[personal ads]] in the ''[[Dallas Morning News]]'' asking the "Running Man" to please call "Lee". Investigators thought that these might be coded messages placed by assassin [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] until they discovered the source of the advertisements. In [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]], an [[urban legend]] arose claiming that the film was a flop because it starred actors named Lee and Harvey.<ref>{{cite book | title=A Cruel and Shocking Act | publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company]] | author=Shenon, Philip | year=2013 | pages=279 | isbn=9780805094206}}</ref>
The film briefly came to the attention of the [[Warren Commission]] investigating the [[assassination of President John F. Kennedy]] because of a [[viral marketing]] campaign that placed [[personal ads]] in the ''[[Dallas Morning News]]'' asking the "Running Man" to please call "Lee". Investigators thought that these might be coded messages placed by assassin [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] until they discovered the source of the advertisements. In [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]], an [[urban legend]] arose claiming that the film was a flop because it starred actors named Lee and Harvey.<ref>{{cite book | title=A Cruel and Shocking Act | publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company]] | author=Shenon, Philip | year=2013 | pages=279 | isbn=9780805094206}}</ref>


== Plot ==
==Plot summary==
Stella Black ([[Lee Remick]]) attends a memorial service for her husband Rex. Apparently, he died in a [[gliding]] accident, but his body was never recovered. There's a good reason for this; Rex ([[Laurence Harvey]]) is still alive. In reality, he and Stella are perpetrating this ruse to collect £50,000 life insurance as revenge against the same company that refused to pay out on a previous claim. Even the insurance company's investigator, Stephen Maddox ([[Alan Bates]]), fails to uncover the crime, freeing the Blacks to travel to [[Malaga]] for an extended vacation.
Stella Black attends a memorial service for her husband Rex, who "died" in a [[gliding]] accident, but whose body was never recovered. In reality, he and Stella are perpetrating [[insurance fraud]] to collect £50,000 life insurance as revenge against the same company that refused to pay a previous claim. An insurance investigator, Stephen Maddox, comes to question the “widow,” asking whether Rex might have committed suicide. Rex, who is in hiding, instructs Stella to transfer the insurance payment to a bank in [[Málaga]], Spain, where he will be staying, and then to follow him there.

In [[Paris]], Rex steals the passport of drunken Jim Jerome, a touring [[Australians|Australian]] [[Sheep farming|sheep rancher]], and doctors it with his own photograph.

Arriving in Malaga after receiving the insurance payment, Stella does not like the new arrogance she finds in Rex. He plans to take out a new insurance policy on “Jim Jerome” and once again to fake his death. He gives Stella gold-and-diamond earrings he has insured.


Maddox encounters Stella at an outdoor cafe in Malaga, but she does not immediately recognize him as the agent who interrogated her after Rex's "funeral". Rex believes Maddox's arrival in Spain is too coincidental and he is there to expose the insurance fraud. When Maddox seems to accept Rex as Jim Jerome and shows attraction to Stella, Rex wants to continue to be friendly to see how much Maddox knows. Conversationally, Maddox indicates he is just lonely and eager to associate with fellow tourists, but they are suspicious when they see him taking notes. Stella accuses Rex of liking to take risks. When Rex instructs Stella to get a look at Maddox’s notebook, she goes sightseeing with Maddox. Stella confuses a comment she made about “Jim” not liking churches with her late husband Rex not liking churches. After Maddox walks in on Stella searching his room, she pretends she is looking for him and ends up having sex with him to allay his suspicions. Maddox reveals he is no longer working for the insurance company and now works for a paint company. His notes are just tourist observations. A maid knocks on the door, and Stella exclaims that it might be “Rex,” then corrects herself to say “Jim.” Stella loses one of her expensive earrings in Maddox’s bed.
While there, Rex steals the passport of drunken Jim Jerome ([[John Meillon]]), a touring [[Australians|Australian]] sheep rancher, and doctors it with his own photograph. This enables Rex to plan a future "trick" involving another insurance company in which, as before, he will fake his own death. Meanwhile, a British male vacationer who Stella recognizes but can't remember approaches her at an outdoor cafe. Eventually, he reminds her that he is Stephen Maddox, the agent who interrogated her after Rex's "funeral". Rex believes Maddox's arrival in Spain is too coincidental, and that he is looking for evidence to expose the Blacks' insurance fraud. In time, though, Stella believes Stephen is only a sweet, lonely man who desires company with someone he had previously met.


Suspecting something amiss, Maddox calls Rex by his real name, but “Jim” corrects him nonchalantly. Maddox comments that he has made business calls to London, fueling Rex’s paranoia, and causing him to decide to drop the “Jim Jerome” fraud and leave. Dropping the new scam reassures Stella, as does Rex handing her an envelope with the cashier's check for the Black insurance money. When Maddox assumes that Stella and he are now a couple, Stella warns him not to expect too much. Later, Maddox sees Stella and Rex furtively drive off from the hotel and hurriedly follows them, approaching [[Gibraltar]]. While Rex is distracted by a traffic jam caused by a "[[Running of the bulls|running-of-the-bulls]]", Maddox confronts Stella. Resigned that she wants the rich Australian husband, he holds out her earring “so you don’t have to explain to Jim how you lost it”, but Rex interrupts them before she can discreetly take her earring back. Rex invites Maddox to follow them for a farewell drink, driving further up the mountain, but Rex runs Maddox's car off the road. Rex drives on toward the Gibraltar [[border]], but while he is busy with border officials, Stella slips away. Rex chases Stella into a church, accusing her of absconding with the money, and attacks her, but flees when a police officer intervenes. Stella is taken to the police station, where she encounters an alive Maddox, who returns her earring and testifies to police that his plunge off the road was an accident. Rex reaches an air strip, steals a private plane, and escapes. The plane runs out of fuel, falling into the sea. Stella is there for Rex’s recovery from the ocean, with a dying Rex lamenting that “Jim Jerome’s” life is not insured. When asked how she knew him, Stella tells police that he was just a man she met on holiday.
Subsequent events bear out Stella's guess; Stephen is guilty of nothing more than looking for companionship with fellow Englanders. But later, Stephen suspects something is amiss with the couple. In fact, Stephen speaks to Rex as if he knows what's going on with their scam without actually saying so. This alarms Rex beyond all reason. At one point, Rex's paranoia fuels his attempt to run Stephen's car off the road as he and Stella make a frenzied getaway drive to Gibraltar. But before the couple can enter British territory, they are detained by a Spanish police captain ([[Fernando Rey]]). Rex uses the confusion of a "[[Running of the bulls|running-of-the-bulls]]" event to escape, leaving his wife to the mercies of officialdom. He reaches an air strip, where he steals a private plane and escapes the [[Gibraltar|Rock]]. The plane runs out of fuel, forcing Rex into the sea, with fatal consequences. The film's final scene, as at the story's beginning, shows Stella, seemingly, mourning the death of Rex—this time, for real, as he is taken away by boat, dead or possibly just unconscious.


==Cast==
==Cast==
* [[Laurence Harvey]] as Rex
* [[Laurence Harvey]] as Rex
* [[Lee Remick]] as Stella
* [[Lee Remick]] as Stella
* [[Alan Bates]] as Stephen
* [[Alan Bates]] as Stephen
* [[Felix Aylmer]] as Parson
* [[Felix Aylmer]] as Parson
* [[Eleanor Summerfield]] as Hilda Tanner
* [[Eleanor Summerfield]] as Hilda Tanner
* [[Allan Cuthbertson]] as Jenkins
* [[Allan Cuthbertson]] as Jenkins
* [[Harold Goldblatt]] as Tom Webster
* [[Harold Goldblatt]] as Tom Webster
* [[Noel Purcell (actor)|Noel Purcell]] as Miles Bleeker
* [[Noel Purcell (actor)|Noel Purcell]] as Miles Bleeker
* [[Ramsay Ames]] as Madge Penderby
* [[Ramsay Ames]] as Madge Penderby
* [[Fernando Rey]] as Police Official
* [[Fernando Rey]] as Police Official
* [[Juanjo Menéndez]] as Roberto (as Juan Jose Menendez)
* [[Juanjo Menéndez]] as Roberto (as Juan Jose Menendez)
* [[Eddie Byrne]] as Sam Crewdson
* [[Eddie Byrne]] as Sam Crewdson
* [[Colin Gordon]] as Solicitor
* [[Colin Gordon]] as Solicitor
* [[John Meillon]] as Jim Jerome
* [[John Meillon]] as Jim Jerome
* [[Roger Delgado]] as Spanish Doctor
* [[Roger Delgado]] as Spanish Doctor
* [[Fortunio Bonanova]] as Spanish Bank Manager
* [[Fortunio Bonanova]] as Spanish Bank Manager
* Shirley Gale as Florence
* Shirley Gale as Florence
* [[José Calvo]] as Porter (as Jose Calvo)
* [[José Calvo]] as Porter (as Jose Calvo)
* [[Joe Lynch (actor)|Joe Lynch]] as Roy Tanner
* [[Joe Lynch (actor)|Joe Lynch]] as Roy Tanner
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* Ildefonso San Félix as Customs Official (as Ildefonso San Felix)
* Ildefonso San Félix as Customs Official (as Ildefonso San Felix)
* María Granada as Dianne (as Maria Granada)
* María Granada as Dianne (as Maria Granada)
* Rafael Albaicín as Waiter (as Rafael Albaicin)
* [[Rafael Albaicín]] as Waiter
* Ángel Jiménez as 1st Gispy Boy (as Angel Jimenez)
* Ángel Jiménez as 1st Gispy Boy (as Angel Jimenez)
* Juan Jiménez as 2nd Gispy Boy (as Juan Jimenez)
* Juan Jiménez as 2nd Gispy Boy (as Juan Jimenez)


==Original novel==
==Original novel==
''The Ballad of the Running Man'' was published in 1961. The ''Guardian'' called it "horrifying, gripping."<ref>CRIMINAL RECORDS
''The Ballad of the Running Man'' was published in 1961. The ''Guardian'' called it "horrifying, gripping."<ref>CRIMINAL RECORDS Iles, Francis. The Guardian 3 November 1961: 9.</ref> The ''New York Times'' called it "spellbinding".<ref>Criminals at Large
Iles, Francis. The Guardian 3 Nov 1961: 9.</ref> The ''New York Times'' called it "spellbinding".<ref>Criminals at Large
By ANTHONY BOUCHER. New York Times 8 April 1962: BR15.</ref>
By ANTHONY BOUCHER. New York Times 8 Apr 1962: BR15.</ref>


==Production==
==Production==
In March 1962 it was announced [[Carol Reed]] would direct a film based on the novel for Columbia Pictures, who had made Reed's ''[[Our Man in Havana]]''. It was the first project Reed worked on since leaving the filming of ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''.<ref>'Mutiny' Director Find Make Deals: Bogarde in 'Living Room'; Du Pont Scion Plans Three
In March 1962 it was announced [[Carol Reed]] would direct a film based on the novel for Columbia Pictures, who had made Reed's ''[[Our Man in Havana]]''. It was the first project Reed worked on since leaving the filming of ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''.<ref>'Mutiny' Director Find Make Deals: Bogarde in 'Living Room'; Du Pont Scion Plans Three
Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 2 Mar 1962: C13.</ref>
Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 2 March 1962: C13.</ref>


Filming took place in Spain, for ten weeks, and at [[Ardmore Studios]] in Ireland.<ref>Lee Remick, Garner Named as Co-Stars Los Angeles Times 29 June 1962: C11.</ref><ref>REED'S 'RUNNING MAN' ON A SPANISH COURSE New York Times (12 Aug 1962: X7.</ref> The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[John Stoll]].
Filming took place in Spain, for ten weeks, and at [[Ardmore Studios]] in Ireland.<ref>Lee Remick, Garner Named as Co-Stars Los Angeles Times 29 June 1962: C11.</ref><ref>REED'S 'RUNNING MAN' ON A SPANISH COURSE New York Times (12 August 1962: X7.</ref> The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[John Stoll]].


== Reception ==
==Reception==
''[[The New York Times]]'' published a negative review of the film, with critic [[Bosley Crowther]] writing: "Mr. Reed, who used to shine at flight and pursuit melodramas, just doesn't put excitement into this film. He has mostly devoted himself to getting the Malaga atmosphere, and this, in color, is rather dazzling. It's the only thing in the film that is."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Screen: Laurence Harvey on the Run|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|date=1963-10-03|work=The New York Times|page=31}}</ref>
''[[The New York Times]]'' published a negative review of the film, with critic [[Bosley Crowther]] writing: "Mr. Reed, who used to shine at flight and pursuit melodramas, just doesn't put excitement into this film. He has mostly devoted himself to getting the Malaga atmosphere, and this, in color, is rather dazzling. It's the only thing in the film that is."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Screen: Laurence Harvey on the Run|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|date=1963-10-03|work=The New York Times|page=31}}</ref>


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==External links==
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*{{Rotten Tomatoes|the_running_man_1963}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|the_running_man_1963}}


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Latest revision as of 11:35, 22 December 2024

This article is about the 1963 film starring Laurence Harvey. For the 1987 film of the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, see The Running Man (1987 film). For other films, see Running Man.

The Running Man
Directed byCarol Reed
Screenplay byJohn Mortimer
Based onThe Ballad of the Running Man
1961 novel
by Shelley Smith
Produced byCarol Reed
StarringLaurence Harvey
Lee Remick
Alan Bates
CinematographyRobert Krasker
Edited byBert Bates
Music byWilliam Alwyn
Color processEastman Color
Production
company
Peet Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • May 1963 (1963-05) (United Kingdom)
  • October 1963 (1963-10) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish

The Running Man is a 1963 British-American neo-noir drama film directed by Carol Reed, starring Laurence Harvey as a man who fakes his own death in a glider accident, then runs into trouble when an insurance investigator (Alan Bates) starts taking a close interest.[1] Lee Remick co-starred with Harvey as the man's wife. It was adapted by screenwriter John Mortimer from the 1961 novel The Ballad of the Running Man by Shelley Smith.

It was filmed in San Roque, Cádiz; La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz; Algeciras, Cádiz; Spain; Gibraltar; and Ireland. The film opened at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 1 August 1963.[2]

The film briefly came to the attention of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy because of a viral marketing campaign that placed personal ads in the Dallas Morning News asking the "Running Man" to please call "Lee". Investigators thought that these might be coded messages placed by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald until they discovered the source of the advertisements. In Hollywood, an urban legend arose claiming that the film was a flop because it starred actors named Lee and Harvey.[3]

Plot summary

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Stella Black attends a memorial service for her husband Rex, who "died" in a gliding accident, but whose body was never recovered. In reality, he and Stella are perpetrating insurance fraud to collect £50,000 life insurance as revenge against the same company that refused to pay a previous claim. An insurance investigator, Stephen Maddox, comes to question the “widow,” asking whether Rex might have committed suicide. Rex, who is in hiding, instructs Stella to transfer the insurance payment to a bank in Málaga, Spain, where he will be staying, and then to follow him there.

In Paris, Rex steals the passport of drunken Jim Jerome, a touring Australian sheep rancher, and doctors it with his own photograph.

Arriving in Malaga after receiving the insurance payment, Stella does not like the new arrogance she finds in Rex. He plans to take out a new insurance policy on “Jim Jerome” and once again to fake his death. He gives Stella gold-and-diamond earrings he has insured.

Maddox encounters Stella at an outdoor cafe in Malaga, but she does not immediately recognize him as the agent who interrogated her after Rex's "funeral". Rex believes Maddox's arrival in Spain is too coincidental and he is there to expose the insurance fraud. When Maddox seems to accept Rex as Jim Jerome and shows attraction to Stella, Rex wants to continue to be friendly to see how much Maddox knows. Conversationally, Maddox indicates he is just lonely and eager to associate with fellow tourists, but they are suspicious when they see him taking notes. Stella accuses Rex of liking to take risks. When Rex instructs Stella to get a look at Maddox’s notebook, she goes sightseeing with Maddox. Stella confuses a comment she made about “Jim” not liking churches with her late husband Rex not liking churches. After Maddox walks in on Stella searching his room, she pretends she is looking for him and ends up having sex with him to allay his suspicions. Maddox reveals he is no longer working for the insurance company and now works for a paint company. His notes are just tourist observations. A maid knocks on the door, and Stella exclaims that it might be “Rex,” then corrects herself to say “Jim.” Stella loses one of her expensive earrings in Maddox’s bed.

Suspecting something amiss, Maddox calls Rex by his real name, but “Jim” corrects him nonchalantly. Maddox comments that he has made business calls to London, fueling Rex’s paranoia, and causing him to decide to drop the “Jim Jerome” fraud and leave. Dropping the new scam reassures Stella, as does Rex handing her an envelope with the cashier's check for the Black insurance money. When Maddox assumes that Stella and he are now a couple, Stella warns him not to expect too much. Later, Maddox sees Stella and Rex furtively drive off from the hotel and hurriedly follows them, approaching Gibraltar. While Rex is distracted by a traffic jam caused by a "running-of-the-bulls", Maddox confronts Stella. Resigned that she wants the rich Australian husband, he holds out her earring “so you don’t have to explain to Jim how you lost it”, but Rex interrupts them before she can discreetly take her earring back. Rex invites Maddox to follow them for a farewell drink, driving further up the mountain, but Rex runs Maddox's car off the road. Rex drives on toward the Gibraltar border, but while he is busy with border officials, Stella slips away. Rex chases Stella into a church, accusing her of absconding with the money, and attacks her, but flees when a police officer intervenes. Stella is taken to the police station, where she encounters an alive Maddox, who returns her earring and testifies to police that his plunge off the road was an accident. Rex reaches an air strip, steals a private plane, and escapes. The plane runs out of fuel, falling into the sea. Stella is there for Rex’s recovery from the ocean, with a dying Rex lamenting that “Jim Jerome’s” life is not insured. When asked how she knew him, Stella tells police that he was just a man she met on holiday.

Cast

[edit]

Original novel

[edit]

The Ballad of the Running Man was published in 1961. The Guardian called it "horrifying, gripping."[4] The New York Times called it "spellbinding".[5]

Production

[edit]

In March 1962 it was announced Carol Reed would direct a film based on the novel for Columbia Pictures, who had made Reed's Our Man in Havana. It was the first project Reed worked on since leaving the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty.[6]

Filming took place in Spain, for ten weeks, and at Ardmore Studios in Ireland.[7][8] The film's sets were designed by the art director John Stoll.

Reception

[edit]

The New York Times published a negative review of the film, with critic Bosley Crowther writing: "Mr. Reed, who used to shine at flight and pursuit melodramas, just doesn't put excitement into this film. He has mostly devoted himself to getting the Malaga atmosphere, and this, in color, is rather dazzling. It's the only thing in the film that is."[9]

Writing in The Los Angeles Times, Philip K. Scheuer praised the film, writing: "Columbia's 'The Running Man' is my idea of an almost perfect motion picture — on-edge anxiety, unpredictable surprises, all astonishingly logical; and always a developing sense of characterization, so that — in contrast to the celebrated Mr. Hitchcock's chases — the final bitterly ironic twist leaves one actually moved with pity and a feeling of loss."[10]

Awards

[edit]

Cinematographer Robert Krasker — one of Carol Reed's favorites — was nominated for the BAFTA colour cinematography award.[11]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Variety film review; 7 August 1963, page 6.
  2. ^ The Times, 1 August 1963, Page 2
  3. ^ Shenon, Philip (2013). A Cruel and Shocking Act. Henry Holt and Company. p. 279. ISBN 9780805094206.
  4. ^ CRIMINAL RECORDS Iles, Francis. The Guardian 3 November 1961: 9.
  5. ^ Criminals at Large By ANTHONY BOUCHER. New York Times 8 April 1962: BR15.
  6. ^ 'Mutiny' Director Find Make Deals: Bogarde in 'Living Room'; Du Pont Scion Plans Three Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 2 March 1962: C13.
  7. ^ Lee Remick, Garner Named as Co-Stars Los Angeles Times 29 June 1962: C11.
  8. ^ REED'S 'RUNNING MAN' ON A SPANISH COURSE New York Times (12 August 1962: X7.
  9. ^ Crowther, Bosley (3 October 1963). "Screen: Laurence Harvey on the Run". The New York Times. p. 31.
  10. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (17 October 1963). "Fascinating Thriller From Sir Carol Reed". The Los Angeles Times. p. IV-10.
  11. ^ "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
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