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Running Target

Running Target
Running Target poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Marvin R. Weinstein
Produced by Jack Couffer
Screenplay by Marvin R. Weinstein
Jack Couffer
Conrad L. Hall
Story by Steve Frazee
Starring Doris Dowling
Arthur Franz
Richard Reeves
Myron Healey
James Parnell
Music by Ernest Gold
Cinematography Lester Shorr
Edited by Carlo Lodato
Production
company
Canyon Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • November 1, 1956 (1956-11-01)
Running time
82 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Running Target is a 1956 American Western film directed by Marvin R. Weinstein and written by Marvin R. Weinstein, Jack Couffer and Conrad L. Hall. The film stars Doris Dowling, Arthur Franz, Richard Reeves, Myron Healey and James Parnell. The film was released on November 1, 1956, by United Artists.

Four fugitives head for the Colorado hills after a prison break. A posse is formed, led by lawman Scott and including a couple of civilians, Jaynes, a bartender who is a marksman with a rifle, and Smitty, a resourceful woman who runs a gas station that the criminals robbed. Smitty brings along a satchel on the hunt.

A man named Kaygo is the outlaw leader and considered the toughest and smartest of the bunch. Jaynes is more obsessed than the others and a bit trigger-happy. Scott tolerates much of his behavior while trying to understand Smitty, discovering at one point that her satchel includes a white dress.

After the others are accounted for, Kaygo is the only one left. The searchers go separate ways and Scott suddenly spots Smitty in her dress, romping with Kaygo in a field, obviously in love. He takes aim to shoot, then changes his mind and orders the prisoner to surrender. Jaynes doesn't understand what has happened when he arrives to find Smitty distraught over Kaygo's capture.


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