He Ran All the Way
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| Directed by | John Berry |
| Produced by | Bob Roberts |
| Screenplay by |
Hugo Butler Dalton Trumbo |
| Based on | the novel by Sam Ross |
| Starring |
John Garfield Shelley Winters |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Edited by | Francis D. Lyon |
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Roberts Pictures
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1 million (US rentals) |
He Ran All the Way is a 1951 film noir crime film directed by John Berry starring John Garfield, Shelley Winters.
The film was Garfield's last, as accusations of his involvement with the Communist Party and a refusal to name names while testifying before the HUAC led to his blacklisting in Hollywood. He died less than a year later, at age thirty-nine, from coronary thrombosis due to a blood clot blocking an artery in his heart.
During the film's initial run, director John Berry and writers Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler were uncredited due to Hollywood blacklisting during the Red Scare.
Petty thief Nick Robey (John Garfield) botches a robbery, leaving his partner Al (Norman Lloyd) severely wounded as Nick escapes with over $10,000. Meeting bakery worker Peg Dobbs (Shelley Winters) in friendly conversation, when Peg takes Nick to her family's apartment, he decides to take the family hostage until he can escape.
As a manhunt for Nick begins outside, the robber becomes increasingly paranoid. Meanwhile, Peg schemes to sacrifice herself for the safety of her family.
When the film was released, film critic Bosley Crowther praised the work of actor John Garfield, writing: "John Garfield's stark performance of the fugitive who desperately contrives to save himself briefly from capture is full of startling glints from start to end. He makes a most odd and troubled creature, unused to the normal flow of life, unable to perceive the moral standards of decent people or the tentative advance of a good girl's love. And in Mr. Garfield's performance, vis-a-vis the rest of the cast, is conveyed a small measure of the irony and the pity that was in the book."
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