On the Run (1963 film)

On the Run
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert Tronson
Screenplay byRichard Harris
Based ona story
by Edgar Wallace
Produced byJack Greenwood
StarringEmrys Jones
Sarah Lawson
Patrick Barr
Edited byDerek Holding
Music byBernard Ebbinghouse
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Release date
  • 14 April 1963 (14 April 1963)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

On the Run is a 1963 British film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Emrys Jones, Sarah Lawson and Patrick Barr.[1] Part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on a story by Wallace.[citation needed]

Plot

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Frank Stewart escapes from prison jail, with outside help from criminal bookie Wally Lucas. Stewart discovers that Lucas is trying to get his hands on some hidden bonds, the location of which only Stewart knows. Stewart goes into hiding, helped by model agency owner Helen Carr, but Lucas's gang kidnap them. To save Helen, Frank reveals that the bonds are hidden in a sewer, and fights it out with Lucas there until the police arrive.

Cast

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The plot of this addition to the Edgar Wallace series runs to formula, though leaving untidy loose ends – whether or not the bonds are recovered, and whether the budding romance blossoms or fades, for example. But the most curious aspect of the film is the unorthodox, and even perplexing, characterisation of the police: Patrick Barr portrays a moderately conventional Sergeant whose superior (played by Garfield Morgan) is a singularly obnoxious person, mean in temperament, and forever sponging on his subordinate. Various details in the script stress the Inspector's unlikeable personality, but to no purpose beyond the eventual suggestion by the Sergeant that he would like one of his superior's cigarettes for a change."[2]

References

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  1. ^ "On the Run". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  2. ^ "On the Run". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 30 (348): 68. 1 January 1963 – via ProQuest.
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