Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution
expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed June 18 as the street
date for Blu-ray edition (a 2K film restoration) of director Carol Reed’s 1963
thriller, The Running Man.
Rex Black (Laurence Harvey — Room at
the Top, The Manchurian Candidate,
etc.) screwed up and failed to make an insurance premium payment on time and
was subsequently driven out of business.
To get “even” with the insurance company, he concocts an elaborate
scheme that involves him faking his own death and then collecting the insurance
with the help of his wife, Stella (Lee Remick — Anatomy
of a Murder).
It is a simple plan, seemingly foolproof, but as
they say: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” This pesky insurance agent (played by Alan
Bates) just keeps showing up. And, as a
result, things get very, very complicated … but through it all, it is never as
it seems.
Filmmaker Carol Reed’s The
Running Man has clever plot twists galore as
Rex has to stay one jump ahead of an ever-closing noose (or so it seems), with
an ending that leaves one with a smile on their face at the irony of it all.
Bonus features include commentary by author Peter
William Evans (“British Film-Makers: Carol Reed”), the featurette titled “On the
Trail of the Running Man” and a vintage audio-only session with filmmaker Carol
Reed (circa 1970).
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