Run Chrissie Run!

Run Chrissie Run!
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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	South Australian Film Corporation
Distributed by	Australian Video (Australia) EuroVideo (Germany)
Release date	1984 (1984)
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. During production it was known as Reunion.[2] Interior scenes were shot in the Adelaide suburb of Hendon.[3]

The film is not connected in any way with the unproduced radio play Run, Chrissie, Run by Fay Weldon.[4]

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 was not released theatrically as originally intended. It screened on Australian TV in 1988.[5]

See also

• Australian films of 1986
• Cinema of Australia
• List of Australian films
• South Australian Film Corporation

References

1. "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, August 1984 p261
2. Brian Curtis, 'Movie industry alive and well' Melbourne Age 26 Nov 1983 p. 164
3. Brian Curtis, 'Movie industry alive and well' Melbourne Age 26 Nov 1983 p. 164
4. Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon
5. 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