He Ran All the Way (1951) on Netflix
Petty thief Nick Robey shoots a policeman during a robbery. He meets bakery worker Peg Dobbs at a swimming pool, and she invites him to the apartment where her family lives.
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Plot summary
Peg Dobbs works in a bakery and lives with her mother, her father Fred and her young brother Tommy. At a local swimming pool she meets Nick Robey, a petty thief who has just shot a policeman dead during a robbery and left his partner Al Molin badly wounded, escaping with more than $10,000. She invites him to the apartment where she lives with her family. When the others come back from the cinema, Nick holds the household at gunpoint. A manhunt for him begins outside. Peg's mother and father urge Nick to leave, and he refuses; he allows Fred to go to work after warning him about what will follow if the police are told.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about He Ran All the Way (1951)
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- John Garfield had allegedly been denied roles over accusations of Communist Party involvement; he testified before HUAC on April 23, 1951, denying party membership, two months before He Ran All the Way opened, and died on May 21, 1952, at age 39.
- Just before the premiere, director John Berry and screenwriter Hugo Butler were subpoenaed by HUAC, and producer Bob Roberts removed their names from the film's advertising, first in the trade press and then in the general press.
- Communist writer Dalton Trumbo, sentenced to prison for contempt of Congress, signed in 1947 to adapt Sam Ross's novel. While he was incarcerated, fellow writer Hugo Butler restored much of the original script at Trumbo's request and added his own material; Guy Endore and director John Berry also revised it.
- Trumbo was paid $5,000 and five percent of the producers' profits on the condition that the film cost no more than $400,000. He complained to producer Bob Roberts that the costs had grown to about $650,000, saying that came right out of his pocket.
