Eddie Macon's Run

Eddie Macon's Run
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Directed by	Jeff Kanew
Produced by	Martin Bregman and Louis A. Stroller, Peter Saphier(executive producer)
Written by	Jeff Kanew
Starring	Kirk Douglas John Schneider Lee Purcell
Music by	Norton Buffalo and Mike Hinton
Cinematography	James A. Cotner
Edited by	Jeff Kanew
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	March 23, 1983
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Eddie Macon's Run is a 1983 film based on the 1980 novel by James McLendon, it stars Kirk Douglas, John Schneider and John Goodman in his film debut.^[1]

Plot

Eddie Macon (Schneider) was wrongly convicted of a crime. While performing at a prison rodeo in Huntsville, Texas, he escapes and heads for the border, hoping to join his family in Mexico. Marzack (Douglas) is a cop in hot pursuit of Eddie, determined to put him back in jail. Eddie has no transportation, so he takes the journey on foot. He ends up in the woods, where he is nearly killed. He meets Jilly Buck, a bored rich girl who agrees to help him because it's "just a slow Wednesday."

Cast

• Kirk Douglas as Marzack
• John Schneider as Eddie Macon
• Lee Purcell as Jilly Buck
• Lisa Dunsheath as Kay Potts
• Leah Ayres as Chris
• Tom Noonan as Daryl Potts
• J. C. Quinn as Shorter
• Gil Rogers as Logan
• Jay O. Sanders as Rudy Potts
• Todd Allen as Desk Sergeant
• Nesbitt Blaisdell as Sheriff Nighblack
• John Goodman as Herbert
• James W. Knight as Prison Guard

References

1. "Eddie Macon's Run". The New York Times.

External links

• Eddie Macon's Run at the Internet Movie Database