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Run Chrissie Run!

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Run Chrissie Run!
DVD cover
Directed byChris Langman
Screenplay byGraham Hartley
Based onWhen We Ran (novel)
by Keith Leopold
Produced byJock Blair
Harley Manners
Ron Saunders
StarringCarmen Duncan
Michael Aitkens
Red Symons
Annie Jones
Nicholas Eadie
CinematographyErnie Clark
Edited byAndrew Prowse
Music byRobert Kretschmer
Production
company
Distributed byAustralian Video (Australia)
EuroVideo (Germany)
Release date
  • 1984 (1984)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$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

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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

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Release

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The film was made in 1984 but was not released theatrically as originally intended. It screened on Australian TV in 1988.[5]

See also

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References

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  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
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