Run for the Sun (1956) on Netflix
Novelist Mike Latimer is in self-imposed exile in a remote Mexican fishing village. Reporter Katie Connors tracks him down, and their flight to Mexico City goes down near an estate.
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Plot summary
Mike Latimer is an adventure novelist living in San Marcos, a remote Mexican fishing village, where he passes his days drinking, fishing, hunting and flying his aircraft, having dropped out of sight at the peak of his fame. Katie Connors, a journalist for Sight magazine, arrives and contrives to meet him, hoping for a story; she keeps her reason for coming to herself. Latimer, smitten, offers to fly her to Mexico City. The magnetized notebook in her purse throws off the aircraft's compass, and the plane runs out of fuel over jungle. Latimer crash-lands in a clearing and wakes in a bed at a hacienda, where Katie introduces the men who took them in, the Englishman Browne and the Dutch archaeologist Dr. Van Anders.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Run for the Sun (1956)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Leo Genn was meant to play the head villain of Run for the Sun, with script approval at $3,500 a week plus expenses, but he disliked the rewritten script when he arrived in Mexico to start filming and pulled out, so Trevor Howard was cast instead. Genn later sued Waterfield and was paid his complete salary.
- The hacienda used as Browne and Van Anders' jungle base in Run for the Sun was a vast, ruined 16th century hacienda and sugar plantation and refinery built by Hernán Cortés at Atlacomulco, southeast of Cuernavaca. In the 1980s the principal house and several other buildings were restored and turned into a hotel.
- The interiors of the hacienda house and of the small hotel where Katie Connors and Mike Latimer meet were sets built at Estudios Churubusco in Mexico City, and the house interior was reputed to be the largest set yet built in a Mexican studio.
