BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Ed-Shullivan John Garfield plays a troubled and confused robber named Nick Robey whose problems are further exasperated as he is unemployed and lives at home with his mother who is not very loving or understanding. So Nick is trying to figure out what to do with his life when he is literally pushed out of his bed and onto the street by his pestering mother and he is greeted by a waiting shark named Al Molin (played by Norman Lloyd best known for his TV role as Dr. Daniel Auschlander in the 1982-88 hospital drama St. Elsewhere) who has talked Nick into a surefire plan of robbing a manufacturing plant of their weekly payroll.The robbery does not go as it was planned but Nick does escape with a briefcase full of $10K cash but he needs a place to hide after shooting a cop while getting away from the robbery. Nick decides to hang out on the beachfront in an indoor public pool where he accidentally collides into a novice and naive young female named Peggy Dobbs played brilliantly by Shelly Winters.As Nick's head is swirling with where to hide and when to make his getaway his paranoia comes to a head and he convinces the naive Peggy Dobbs to allow him just to walk her home. Poor naive Peg agrees to have Nick walk her home and she invites him into her upstairs apartment which Peg shares with her parents and younger brother Tommy. John Garfield lives an isolated existence both physically and more importantly emotionally. When the pressure of the police potentially closing in on him becomes far too much for him to bear Nick misled by his delusional paranoia he makes a decision that he will keep the four (4) Dobbs family members hostage in their upstairs apartment until the heat dies down and he can figure out how and when to make his getaway.John Garfield plays the paranoid plant robber on the run with great emotion and fear. His screen performance portrays a young man who just seems lost and wanting for someone, anyone, to show him some semblance of love and understanding. So Nick reaches out to his mother but even she turns him down. The only one left that Nick believes he can even remotely rely on anymore is this young naive girl Peg who he is holding as a hostage with the rest of her family. Emotions are running at a fervor pace throughout the scared Dobbs family and over the next 48 hours young Peg continues to have empathy for Nick as she realizes he is lost and has no one in his life. The climax of this film is well done and reflects the troubled times of the 1940's and 1950's when film noir and guns went hand in hand with emotion and struggling families.I give the 1951 black and white John Garfield film "He Ran All the Way" a decent 6 out of 10 rating.

jeffhaller125 Good actors like Wallace Ford. Selena Royle and Shelley Winters cannot save a script that plays as if they made it up as they went along. The main character is psychotic and has not a drop of sympathy. He isn't evil simply because Gladys George was a bad mother. Winters' character is pathetic: a mousy girl still living with her overprotective parents and kid brother. She comes off as semi mentally retarded. There really isn't any understanding of Garfield's behavior since the script gives us only tiny pieces about his past. The movie looks great. Wonderful photography and a very gritty atmosphere, but the 77 minutes eventually feels a lot longer. It's a shame that Garfield's swan song was probably his worst picture.

LeonLouisRicci Filmed in the Shadow of HUAC and the Communist Witch Hunt and Blacklist, this Film-Noir is a Strikingly Photographed, dreadfully Atmospheric, Downbeat of a Movie that is Pure Noir and John Garfield's Last Movie.The Pain in the Performance can be seen as a Physical (heart trouble) and Mental (hounded by the McCarthyites) Breakdown occurring On Screen and in Real Life. It is a Powerful Portrayal by Garfield.The Opening Act is Gloomy as Garfield is living with a Mom from Hell in a God-Awful apartment in the Slums. One of the opening Lines of Dialog...Mom: "If you were a Man you'd be out looking for a job."...Garfield: If you were a Man I would kick your teeth out."There is more Noir Nastiness. A botched Payroll Robbery and a Chase through the Train Yards that leads to a Public Swimming Pool, all Filmed with Gritty Noir Realism by Cinematographer James Wong Howe. The Script was Fronted but Written by Dalton Trumbo (HUAC) and Directed by John Berry (HUAC),This is as Bleak as Noir gets with an Ending that is the Genre at its most Definitive. A Must See for the fine Cast, Crackling Dialog and Shadowy Style. It is a Great Exit for Garfield and is a True representation of the Actor and the Man's Feelings articulated in His Art, Symbolic of His Philosophy and Politics.

Michael_Elliott He Ran All the Way (1951) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Disappointing thriller about a thug (John Garfield) who kills a cop and then takes a family hostage until he can figure out what to do. Sadly, this film was Garland's last and this here is really the one thing that makes the film interesting. He delivers a good performance but it's no where near the best of his career or even near the top. Shelley Winters plays the girl who Garland meets and eventually takes hostage while Wallace Ford plays her father. The supporting performances are good but the screenplay doesn't allow any of the actors to do very much. We get countless speeches on why Garfield should do the right thing but we've heard this in countless movies so it comes off old and tired here.