Run For Cover (Blu-ray) (1955)

Editor's Note 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 Hersholt) to convalesce. Here Matt falls in love with Swenson's daughter Helga (Viveca Lindfors). When word of Matt's prowess with a gun reaches the local townsfolk, he is offered the job of sheriff. Matt accepts, but on one condition: that the crippled Davey be appointed deputy. Matt's faith in Davey proves to be misplaced when the embittered boy throws in with the dreaded Gentry gang, but an 11th hour regeneration caps this "psychological western." The curiously Freudian relationship between Matt and Davey was par for the course for Nicholas Ray, who directed RUN FOR COVER betwixt and between his more famous endeavors JOHNNY GUITAR and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.

	Ernest Borgnine
	James Cagney
	John Derek
	Jean Hersholt
	Viveca Lindfors
	Grant Withers
	Howard Joslin - Co-Star
	Jack Montgomery - Co-Star
	Rocky Shahan - Co-Star
	William C. Thomas - Screenwriter
	Wally Westmore - Makeup
	Francisco Day - Assistant Director
	Irving Bacon - Co-Star
	Trevor Bardette - Co-Star
	Joe Haworth - Co-Star
	Harold J. Kennedy - Co-Star
	Jack Lambert - Co-Star
	John Miljan - Co-Star
	Denver Pyle - Co-Star
	Gus Schilling - Co-Star
	Ray Teal - Co-Star
	Emerson Treacy - Co-Star
	Henry Wills - Co-Star
	Phil Chambers - Co-Star
	Frank Cordell - Co-Star
	Jack Brooks - Song Composer
	Farciot Edouart - Special Effects
	Daniel L. Fapp - Director of Photography
	Frank Harriet, Jr. - Story
	John Fulton - Special Effects
	Howard Jackson - Composer
	Howard Jackson - Music Director
	Howard Jackson - Song Composer
	Winston Miller - Screenwriter
	Irving Ravetch - Story
	Nicholas Ray - Director