Run for Cover (Colorado) (1955)
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In his first western since 1939's The Oklahoma Kid, James Cagney is a pillar of integrity in the Pine-Thomas production Run for Cover. Cagney plays Matt Dow, who at the beginning of the film has been released from prison after serving six years for a crime he didn't commit. Heading westward, Matt befriends young Davey Bishop (John Derek), whom he begins to regard as the son (or brother) he never had. When Davey is injured during a train holdup, Matt brings him to the farm of Mr. Swenson (Jean
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James Cagney
Matt Dow -
John Derek
Davey Bishop -
Viveca Lindfors
Helga Swenson -
Jean Hersholt
Mr. Swenson -
Ernest Borgnine
Morgan -
Grant Withers
Gentry -
Jack Lambert
Larsen -
Irving Bacon
Scotty -
Trevor Bardette
Paulsen -
Ray Teal
Sheriff -
Denver Pyle
Harvey -
Emerson Treacy
Bank Clerk -
Gus Schilling
Doc Ridgeway -
Phil Chambers
Andrews -
Harold J. Kennedy
Devers -
Joe Haworth
Miller -
John Miljan
Mayor Walsh -
Henry Wills
Townsman -
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It's not as obviously masterful as some of Ray's other films, it's at the very least an entertaining horse opera with Cagney close to his best.
As Olive's handsome, if no-bones, Blu-ray indicates, the film fairly oozes with the tempestuous emotions that point back to the auteur.
Ray endows it with his usual themes of generational conflict and societal injustice, and does a powerful job getting these themes across.
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