The audience at the 1991 Telluride Film Festival flipped overthis studio-vault print of He Ran All the Way, a film usually seen in16mm. "(It is) John Garfield's last film, released only afterGarfield and director John Berry had finished testifying before HUAC;both were blacklisted. A social-determinist classic: the opening setsthe tone. Nick Robey (Garfield) gets punched up by his mother, thenkills a cop after a botched getaway from a payroll robbery. Seekingrefuge in a public swimming pool, he meets Peggy (Shelley Winters), whotakes him home to meet Mom and Dad. Tension mounts in this seedytenement apartment as Nick and the family turn vicious." (ErrolMorris) "He Ran All the Way was the first film to use the theme ofa family trapped in their own home by hostile outside forces. (That) thekiller and the family share the same background...adds an interestingambivalence to their relationship....The father hesitates to call thepolice because, like firemen at a fire, 'they chop, chop, chop.'"(Silver and Ward, Film Noir)