The Running Man (1963 film)

The Running Man is a 1963 British drama film directed by Carol Reed, starring Laurence Harvey as a man who fakes his own death in a glider accident, then runs into trouble when an insurance investigator starts taking a close interest.

In Croydon, England, seemingly grieving Stella Black Lee Remick has just returned home from her husbands funeral. Apparently, he died in a gliding accident when the glider he had rented crashed into the sea, and his body was never recovered. In reality, she knows her husband Rex Black Laurence Harvey is still alive and has been in hiding at a seaside boarding house for three months under the assumed name of Erskine, a shoe salesman on vacation, between the time of his death and the funeral. He has just clandestinely returned home following the funeral. They are perpetrating this ruse to collect on the 50,000 life insurance money from the Excelsior Insurance Company. They feel Excelsior owes them this money as, in the previous year, Excelsior did not pay out a 20,000 business insurance claim when his airplane, which he used to operate his own transport company, went down in bad weather on a flight to Hamburg, West Germany, and was destroyed. His insurance had lapsed by two days due to someones error in not paying the latest premium Rex admitting that it may have been his error which in turn ruined his business.Rex is close to being spotted at the house when Excelsior agent Stephen Maddux Alan Bates stops by unexpectedly to discuss details of the claim with Stella, most specifically confirmation from her that Rexs death was not suicide over his business failure. ........

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