''Run, Man, Run'' (, also known as ''Big Gundown 2'') is an

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- French Zapata Western film. It is the second film of

Sergio Sollima Sergio Sollima (17 April 1921 – 1 July 2015) was an Italian film director and script writer. Biography Sollima graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1935. During World War II he was in the Italian Resistance. After th ...

centred on the character of Cuchillo, again played by

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, after the two-years earlier successful western ''

The Big Gundown ''The Big Gundown'' () is a 1967 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Sollima, and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian. It was followed by Run, Man, Run in 1968. Plot Possessing a reputation for bringing criminals to justice, ready-to- ...

''. It is also the final chapter of the political-western trilogy of Sollima, which includes '' Face to Face'' , and his last spaghetti western. According to the same Sollima, ''Run, Man, Run'' is the most politic, the most revolutionary and even anarchic among his movies.

Plot

When Cuchillo returns to his hometown in Mexico he soon finds himself in prison, sharing a cell with a dangerous desperado, the poet Ramirez. Despite a pardon and release in one day, Ramirez hires Cuchillo to help him escape. Waiting for his release are numerous bounty hunters eager for the price on Ramirez's head. Evading the hunters, they make it to Ramirez's village, but only minutes before the revolutionary bandit Reza arrives. Ramirez is shot but before he dies, he passes information to Cuchillo regarding $3M in hidden gold, and charges him with returning it to the revolutionary leader, Santillana. Hot on Cuchillo's trail are French mercenaries serving President Diaz, Reza and his bandits, an American gunslinger, and Cuchillo's fiancé, Dolores...who simply wants Cuchillo to stop running and marry her. Deceptions and double-crosses rule as all parties race to discover the gold cache.

Cast

: Manuel "Cuchillo" Sanchez * Donal O'Brien: Nathaniel Cassidy *

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: Penny Bannington *

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: Santillana *

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: Dolores *

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: Colonel Michel Sévigny * José Torres: Ramirez * Edward Ross: Jean-Paul *

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: Riza *

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: Mayor Christopher Bannington * Dan May: Mateos Gonzalez *

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: Pablo *

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: Manuel Etchevaria * Orso Maria Guerrini: Raul *

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: Steve Wilkins * Calisto Calisti: Fernando Lopez

Soundtrack

In addition to composing a large amount of film scores himself,

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also conducted many of

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's film scores. In an interview in the featurette ''Run Man Run: 35 Years Running'', director Sergio Sollima stated that Morricone, who was then contracted with

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was not allowed to work for any other film company, but composed the score to the film without credit.

References

External links

* 1968 films Spaghetti Western films Films directed by Sergio Sollima Films scored by Ennio Morricone Films scored by Bruno Nicolai Mexican Revolution films 1968 Western (genre) films Films shot in Almería 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Western-film-stub