''Run Chrissie Run!'' (also known as ''Money Hunters'' and ''Moving Targets'' in the US) is a 1984 Australian

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, directed by Chris Langman. Graham Hartley adapted the script from the novel ''When We Ran'' by

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. The film is not connected in any way with the unproduced radio play ''Run, Chrissie, Run'' by

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Plot

Two

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hitmen are pursuing Riley (

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), because he killed one of their number. Riley is pursuing Eve ( Carmen Duncan), a German former terrorist, who is on the run in Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie (

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) and the proceeds of an old bank robbery in Germany. The two IRA hitmen, accompanied by an angry biker, track Eve and Chrissie to the

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. Riley arrives on the scene in time for an explosive finale.

Cast

* Carmen Duncan as Eve * Red Symons as Pitt *Michael Aitkens as Riley *

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as Terrier *

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as Toe *

as Chrissie * David Clencie as Paul *Peter Stratford as Meyerdahl *Sarah De Teliga as Sue *

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as Cathy *

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as Cricket coach

Release

The film was made in 1984 but not screened on Australian TV until 1988.Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p135

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''Run Chrissie Run!''
– South Australian Film Corporation
Run Chrissie Run
at Oz Movies 1986 films Australian drama films Films set in South Australia 1986 drama films 1980s English-language films Films directed by Chris Langman 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub

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