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Run Chrissie Run!

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Wikipedia article




'Run Chrissie Run!' (also known as 'Money Hunters' and 'Moving Targets' in the US) is a 1986 Australian action thriller film, directed by Chris Langman. Graham Hartley adapted the script from the novel 'When We Ran' by Keith Leopold.

The film is not connected in any way with the unproduced radio play 'Run, Chrissie, Run' by Fay Weldon.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ORqk0n-NBj0C&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=Run+Chrissie+Run!&source=bl&ots=XC1wdEPuvu&sig=IDYUEYHqsy2o_NwXIXSFH93_oOY&hl=en&ei=8dzuTJvfGInKvQPG7IXNDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEsQ6AEwCTg8#v=onepage&q=Run%20Chrissie%20Run!&f=false 'Auto da Fay' by Fay Weldon]

Plot



Two IRA hitmen are pursuing Riley (Michael Aitkens), because he killed one of their number. Riley is pursuing Eve (Carmen Duncan), a German former terrorist, who is on the run in Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie (Annie Jones) 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



*Carmen Duncan as Eve

*Red Symons as Pitt

*Michael Aitkens as Riley

*Shane Briant as Terrier

*Nicholas Eadie as Toe

*Annie Jones as Chrissie

*David Clencie as Paul

*Peter Stratford as Meyerdahl

*Sarah De Teliga as Sue

*Simone Buchanan as Cathy

*Joanna Moore as Cricket coach

Release



The film was made in 1984 but not screened on Australian TV until 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 films shot in Adelaide

* List of Australian films

* South Australian Film Corporation

References




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