Running from the Guns (originally known as Free Enterprise) is a 1987 Australian crime thriller film directed by John Dixon and starring Jon Blake, Mark Hembrow, Nikki Coghill, Terence Donovan, and Peter Whitford. It is a buddy action film set in Melbourne.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p251
Premise Two friends, Dave and Peter, accidentally pick up the wrong truck at the docks, which contains contraband wanted by some criminals.
Cast Jon Blake as Davie Mark Hembrow as Peter Terence Donovan as Bangles Nikki Coghill as Jill Peter Whitford as Terry Patrick Ward as Mulcahy Warwick Sims as Simon Martin Bill Kerr as Gilman Toni Lamond as Davie's Mum Simon Westaway as Motorcycle Cop Gus Mercurio as Chazza
Production Filming took place in late 1985.
Reception The film received poor reviews. The Age wrote Dixon "attempts in his new film an amoral, cynical and satirical style of action caper-comedy but never comes within co-ee of achieving it."
Filmink later wrote "there’s no reason films like this couldn’t have worked in Australia, this just wasn’t done that well."
References
External links
Running from the Guns at Oz Movies Running from the Guns at Screen Australia