Run Chrissie Run!
Run Chrissie Run! | |
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Directed by | Chris Langman |
Produced by |
Jock Blair Harley Manners Ron Saunders |
Screenplay by | Graham Hartley |
Based on |
Novel by Keith Leopold |
Starring |
Carmen Duncan Red Symons Michael Aitkens Shane Briant |
Music by | Robert Kretschmer |
Cinematography | Ernie Clark |
Edited by | Andrew Prouse |
Production company | |
Distributed by |
Australian Video (Australia) EuroVideo (Germany) |
Release dates | 1986 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | A$1,646,000[1] |
Run Chrissie Run! is a 1986 Australian film, directed by Chris Langman. Graham Hartley adapted the script from the novel When We Ran by Keith Leopold. The film was released in the USA under the title Moving Targets.
The film is not connected in any way with the unproduced radio play Run, Chrissie, Run by Fay Weldon.[2]
Plot
Two IRA hitmen are pursuing Riley (Michael Aitkens), 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 (Annie Jones) 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 Barossa Valley. Riley arrives on the scene in time for an explosive finale.
Cast
- Carmen Duncan ... Eve
- Red Symons ... Pitt
- Michael Aitkens ... Riley
- Shane Briant ... Terrier
- Nicholas Eadie ... Toe
- Annie Jones ... Chrissie
- David Clencie ... Paul
- Peter Stratford ... Meyerdahl
- Sarah De Teliga ... Sue
- Simone Buchanan ... Cathy
- Joanna Moore ... Cricket coach
Release
The film was made in 1984 but not screened on Australian TV until 1988.[3]
See also
- Australian films of 1986
- Cinema of Australia
- List of films shot in Adelaide
- List of Australian films
- South Australian Film Corporation
References
- ↑ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, August 1984 p261
- ↑ Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon
- ↑ Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p135
External links
- Run Chrissie Run! at the Internet Movie Database
- Run Chrissie Run! - South Australian Film Corporation