An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Lawrence Huntington directed, produced and wrote this foray into near-noir which was presumably inspired by the many deserters still at large long after V.E. Day. His script carefully positions Burdon as a sympathetic figure (the name is well-chosen).I was wondering if MAN ON THE RUN was one of his earlier roles, and according to IMDb, the answer is, far from it. His first appearance in a film was in 1935, when he was 21.
W ritten, directed, and produced by Lawrence Huntington, Man on the Run tells a simple tale of one of the estimated 20,000 British army deserters during World War II. While these soldiers generally faced universal condemnation, we can more readily forgive the desertion here by Sergeant Peter Burden (Derek Farr) because he’d been denied a request to go home and say goodbye to his dying sister ...
