Stranger on the Run

Stranger on the Run
DVD cover of Stranger on the Run
Genre	Drama Western
Based on	Reginald Rose
Written by	Dean Riesner
Directed by	Don Siegel
Starring	Henry Fonda Anne Baxter Michael Parks
Music by	Leonard Rosenman
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Richard E. Lyons
Cinematography	Russell Harlan
Editor	Bruce B. Pierce
Running time	97 minutes
Production company	Universal Television
Distributor	NBCUniversal Syndication Studios Trifecta Entertainment & Media
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	October 31, 1967 (1967-10-31)

Stranger on the Run is a 1967 American Western television film directed by Don Siegel and starring Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter and Michael Parks. In some countries it premiered in cinemas.

Plot[]

Former inmate and alcoholic Ben Chamberlain (Fonda) comes to a railway town enquiring about a woman, of whom all seem afraid to speak; he receives a beating just for asking. Chamberlain braves the threats and calls at her house; he discovers her strewn, beaten dead body. The sheriff and his posse of local thuggish enforcers, incorrectly assuming that Chamberlain is the culprit, because he left town without reason, form a posse. Although they catch him in the desert, the sheriff prevents his being lynched and gives him a horse and a head-start chance to reach the border. Chamberlain meets a lonely, widowed homesteader (Baxter), a woman who's troubles also include a son who aspires to be a gunman, but whom she knows hasn't the steely nature it takes. Chamberlain and she slowly start to develop a mutual attraction, but this is interrupted when the posse arrives.

Her son, and the town, all need a new beginning in life. If the two can survive a 20-minute gunfight before the sheriff arrives, then all may be given their last chance in life.

Cast[]

Reception[]

Quentin Tarantino called it Siegel's best western after Flaming Star. He stated "even though it has the Universal TV look of a The Virginian episode, it has, after Andy Robinson's performance as Scorpio in Dirty Harry, the best performance in a Siegel film. Michael Parks as stoic, resilient, walrus-mustached sheriff Vince McKay."^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Stranger on the Run at IMDb
• Stranger on the Run at Letterboxd