History Film / RunForTheSun

Katie Connors (Greer), a writer for a tabloid magazine, travels to UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} to find reclusive novelist Mike Latimer (Widmark). When she uncovers him, the two develop feelings for each other, and Mike offers to fly her back to UsefulNotes/MexicoCity. After their plane crashes in the jungle, they are rescued by an Englishman named Browne (Howard), who seems very hospitable at first but harbours a dark secret: he is traitor wanted for having collaborated with the Nazis, and his companions are Nazi war criminals. Mike and Kate escape into the jungle and find themselves the quarry of their former host in a desperate hunt.

''Run for the Sun'' is a 1956 thriller adventure film directed by Ray Boulting, and starring Creator/RichardWidmark, Janet Greer, and Creator/TrevorHoward. It is an adaptation of "Literature/TheMostDangerousGame" by Richard Connell.

Katie Connors, a writer for a tabloid magazine, travels to UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} to find reclusive novelist Mike Latimer. When she uncovers him, the two develop feelings for each other, and Mike offers to fly her back to UsefulNotes/MexicoCity. After their plane crashes in the jungle they are rescued by an Englishman named Browne, who seems very hospitable at first but harbours a dark secret: he is traitor wanted for collaborating with the Nazis, and his companions are Nazi war criminals. Mike and Kate escape into the jungle and find themselves the quarry of their former host in a desperate hunt.

* ThoseWackyNazis: Browne is an Englishman who [[TokyoRose broadcast propaganda for the Nazis]]; Von Andre is a colonel wanted for ordering the massacre of entire town; and Jan is a Luftwaffe pilot.

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: When Mike and Kate escape into the jungle, Browne, Von Andre and Jan set of after them with rifles and hunting dogs.

** Kate's magnetized notepad (it allows her attach a pen to the side of the pad) which she uses in the hotel bar and keeps in her purse. This is what later throws the compass in the plane off and causes them to get lost.

* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Browne, an English traitor who broadcast propaganda for the Nazis during the war; his brother-in-law, Nazi war criminal Colonel Von Andre; and their Luftwaffe pilot Jan are hiding in an old hacienda in Central America. Mostly they are just hiding from justice, although Von Andre harbours hopes of one day returning to Germany.

Katie Connors, a writer for a tabloid magazine, travels to Mexico to find reclusive novelist Mike Latimer. When she uncovers him, the two develop feelings for each other, and Mike offers to fly her back to Mexico City. After their plane crashes in the jungle they are rescued by an Englishman named Browne, who seems very hospitable at first but harbours a dark secret: he is traitor wanted for collaborating with the Nazis, and his companions are Nazi war criminals. Mike and Kate escape into the jungle and find themselves the quarry of their former host in a desperate hunt.

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* AlliterativeName: '''K'''ate '''C'''onners

* DesignatedBullet: Latimer keeps a rifle cartridge as a lucky piece. During WW II an enemy soldier had him at gunpoint but the gun misfired. He took out the soldier and kept the bullet because it "... had his name on it." He finds another use for it. [[spoiler:In a much copied scene he pushes the cartridge though a bullet hole in a door and then fires it by hitting the primer with a nail and a rock. It goes off and kills his enemy on the other side of the door.]]

* TokyoRose: Latimer realizes it is Browne's voice he recognizes, and that he is an infamous turncoat who during the war broadcast Nazi propaganda from Berlin to Britain after he had married a German girl.

Katie Connors, a writer for a tabloid magazine, travels to Mexico to find reclusive novelist Mike Latimer. When she uncovers him, the two develop feelings for each other, and Mike offers to fly her back to Mexico City. After their plane crashes in the jungle they are rescued by an Englishman named Browne, who seems very hospitable at first but soon reveals a sinister hobby. He is a hunter who preys on "the most dangerous game": man.

* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Nazi Colonel Von Andre is masquerading as Dutch archaeologist Dr. Van Anders.

* DesignatedBullet: Latimer keeps a rifle cartridge as a lucky piece. During WW II an enemy soldier had him at gunpoint but the gun misfired. He took out the soldier and kept the bullet because it "... had his name on it." He finds another use for it. [[spoiler:In a much copied scene he pushes the cartridge though a bullet hole in a door and then fires it by hitting the primer with a nail and a rock. It goes off and kills his enemy on the other side of the door.]]

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