Surprisingly incoherent and boring

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Mike Latimer (Richard Widmark) is a famous novelist who's dropped out of circulation. A reporter (Jane Greer) is undercover--trying to wrangle an exclusive interview with this mercurial man. However, although she is able to make contact with him and befriend him, he doesn't know she's a reporter. What they both don't know is that the plane he's flying them in across the Central American jungle is going to conk out...and leave them stranded in the middle of no where. Does it sound like it couldn't get any worse? Well, it can. Although they are saved from the wreckage, their benefactors turn out to be Nazis hiding out in the jungle and they're not about to let the pair escape if they can help it. Soon, it's a long and torturous trek through the unforgiving jungle...with these nasty jerks in hot pursuit.While this isn't one of Widmark's very best films, it is quite good and the Nazi theme worked since it was only about a dozen years since the war ended. Tense, well crafted and well worth seeing. Besides, Greer nearly died making this film....so don't you owe it to her sacrifice to see the movie?!I originally planned on giving this film an 8...it's really good. But near the end, Latimer takes out one of the baddies and then doesn't bother picking up the guy's gun as he makes his escape. This simply makes no sense and annoyed me.By the way, early on you see the reporter looking through a magazine with a cover story about Latimer. While the magazine looks a lot like LOOK magazine, its name is SIGHT....a rather clever little play on words.

Run from the Sun (1956) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Decent reworking of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME features Richard Widmark and Jane Greer playing a couple writers whose plane crashes in the Mexican jungle. They're taken in by a couple strange men (Trevor Howard, Peter van Eyck) who just happen to be escape Nazis and soon the writers must race through the jungle to try and reach safety. This isn't a direct remake of the 1932 classic and it's a case where I really wish they had stuck closer to the original film instead of trying to do something new. I always admire remakes/re-workings that at least try and do something different but here's a case where the end results really don't work as well as they should have. I really put the majority of the blame on the screenplay because the 99-minute running time doesn't get to the adventure until around the 70-minute mark and by this time the pacing has been so hit and miss that as the viewer you're already taken out of the story. By the time you reach the eventual chase it becomes rather obvious that our two heroes are in no danger and this is a major problem because it leads us to have no suspense anywhere in the story. The first half of the movie tries to build up all the characters, which I wouldn't mind but the screenplay really doesn't do much in terms of character development. I personally found the two lead characters to be rather boring and not once did I buy into their "issues", which include the female hiding the fact that she was a reporter trying to track down Widmark, a famous author who is trying to stay away from the public. The two bad guys are rather interesting characters but their story is quickly told and sadly the two of them are off screen way too much. Once the eventual adventure starts the direction really isn't strong enough to keep the film moving. The jungle settings are never really used to build up anything and while the final ten-minutes finally get some suspense, there are just a few too many silly moments to make the thing completely come together. Both Widmark and Greer are good in their parts but one wishes they had more to work with. Howard easily steals the film as the bad guy but he doesn't get that much screen time. RUN FOR THE SUN has a few interesting moments but not enough to make the film worth viewing unless you're fans of the actors.

Viewed most of the films that Richard Widmark starred in, however, I finally discovered this film being shown on TV in the wee hours of the morning and found this to be a great film Classic. Richard Widmark, (Mike Latimer) and Jane Greer gave an outstanding performance together, sometimes fighting like cats and dogs and struggling to get away from Trevor Howard, (Browne) who plays a very wicked character who will stop at nothing to get just what he desires in life. This entire cast of actors all gave an outstanding performance, but Widmark and Greer really put their heart and soul into this picture. Jane Greer experience a spinal injury during the making of this film, and years later she became very ill and needed surgery, which corrected her problem. It was during a scene in this picture where Jane goes through swampy water which contains many dangerous viruses.

An excellent movie,although recent t.v.showings seem to have been drastically cut! Richard Widmark is, as usual,very watchable. What a great actor. So natural. I really felt for his predicament as the angst-ridden writer. Jane Greer also;proof that career can come second to love! In fact the whole movie is very well cast, (I thought the use of the 'Haw Haw' character was very clever- Trevor Howard on top form!) and real 'edge of the seat'stuff. Maybe the demise of the dog might be a little off-putting to some, but at least it isn't gratuitous. Surely we do want the two characters to survive, after all that trekking through the jungle. Do try to catch this movie if you see it in the listings! Not available on DVD as far as I can ascertain. What a pity!