Given that there are only seven basic plots it seems foolish to spend so much time both alleging and rebutting the connection (or non) between Run For The Sun and The Most Dangerous Game aka The Hounds Of Zaroff. Over the years there have been several films involving an isolated house, an eccentric/insane owner who lures - or waits for the genuinely lost - travellers to his bailiwick, entertains them royally for a short time then explains the way back to the civilised world, gives them a reasonably start and then goes in pursuit with a pack of hounds. This is, of course, a sound basis for a thriller and begs variations. In Run For The Sun Trevor Howard is a William Joyce (Lord 'Haw Haw') who, unlike the original, escaped the hangman's noose and holed up in a Mexican jungle. Richard Widmark and Jane Greer, flying in Widmark's plane to Acapulco, veer off course, run out of gas, and crash not too far from Howard's home. Once Widmark figures out who Howard is and realises there's no way Howard can afford to let them go, he goes on the lam with Greer with Howard and a pack of dogs on their trail. It's competent, Widmark is invariably good value and Greer is good to look at. What's not to like.
Review of Run for the Sun
