Eureka Blu-ray Film Review

Run, Man, Run (1968) • Blu-ray [Eureka! Masters of Cinema]

Several competing groups and mavericks hunt a gold treasure worth $3,000,000…

Run, Man, Run / Corri Uomo Corri is like an all-you-can-eat buffet, serving up a bit of everything one would expect from a spaghetti western, and proving to be one of the more satisfying out of the hundreds made in the genre’s heyday. This was writer-director Sergio Sollima’s final contribution to the genre and the last installment of his loosely linked trilogy of so-called Zapata Westerns — the first being The Big Gundown (1966), followed by Face to Face (1967) — with Run, Man, Run offering a pleasingly open-ended conclusion. Each works as a standalone story because narrative continuity is tenuous, except for the historical backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and Tomas Milian reprising his role of Cuchillo from the first instalment in the third. That’s after playing the unrelated character of Solomon ‘Beau’ Bennet in the second.

After the huge success of The Big Gundown, the popular Cuchillo character was considered enough of a box office draw for Sollima…