Run Chrissie Run! (also known as Money Hunters and Moving Targets in the US) is a 1984 Australian action thriller film, directed by Chris Langman. Graham Hartley adapted the script from the novel When We Ran by Keith Leopold. During production it was known as Reunion.Brian Curtis, 'Movie industry alive and well' Melbourne Age 26 Nov 1983 p. 164 Interior scenes were shot in the Adelaide suburb of Hendon.Brian Curtis, 'Movie industry alive and well' Melbourne Age 26 Nov 1983 p. 164
The film is not connected in any way with the unproduced radio play Run, Chrissie, Run by Fay Weldon.Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon
Plot "London"Two Irish Republican Army hitmen are pursuing Riley because he killed one of their number."Sydney"Riley is pursuing Eve, a German former terrorist, who is on the run in Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie and the proceeds of an old bank robbery in Germany. The two IRA hitmen, accompanied by an angry biker, track Eve and Chrissie to the Barossa Valley. Riley arrives on the scene in time for an explosive finale.
Cast
Release The film was made in 1984 but was not released theatrically as originally intended. It screened on Australian TV in 1988.Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p135
See also
Australian films of 1986 Cinema of Australia List of Australian films South Australian Film Corporation
References
External links
Run Chrissie Run! – South Australian Film Corporation Run Chrissie Run at Oz Movies