| Run Chrissie Run! | |
|---|---|
 DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Chris Langman |
| Screenplay by | Graham Hartley |
| Based on | When We Ran (novel) by Keith Leopold |
| Produced by | Jock Blair Harley Manners Ron Saunders |
| Starring | Carmen Duncan Michael Aitkens Red Symons Annie Jones Nicholas Eadie |
| Cinematography | Ernie Clark |
| Edited by | Andrew Prowse |
| Music by | Robert Kretschmer |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Australian Video (Australia) EuroVideo (Germany) |
Release date | 17 May 1984 (Cannes) |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$1,646,000[1] |
Run Chrissie Run! (also known as Money Hunters and Moving Targets in the US) is a 1984 Australian action thriller film, directed by Chris Langman. Graham Hartley adapted the script from the novel When We Ran by Keith Leopold.
The film is not connected in any way with the unproduced radio play Run, Chrissie, Run by Fay Weldon.[2]
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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 as Eve
- Red Symons as Pitt
- Michael Aitkens as Riley
- Shane Briant as Terrier
- Nicholas Eadie as Toe
- Annie Jones as Chrissie
- David Clencie as Paul
- Peter Stratford as Meyerdahl
- Sarah De Teliga as Sue
- Simone Buchanan as Cathy
- Joanna Moore as 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 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 IMDb
- Run Chrissie Run! – South Australian Film Corporation
- Run Chrissie Run at Oz Movies
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