Run for Cover
Liam Kenny

Review by Liam Kenny Patron

Run for Cover 1955

★★★★½ Liked

Rewatched 02 Dec 2024

Everything anyone could ever want from a performance. The grimace and hunch of James Cagney and the big blue eyes of John Derek. Cagney, an actor known for vast, drastic movements, withdraws his hand and becomes director. He widdles the wooden gun and points your eyesight, carefully taking his time to send his bullet into the hawk's heart. So, Cagney is director as father-figure. He listens to Derek and he tries new ideas, introduces new elements to his figure and environment. It doesn't work, Cagney loses his cool and is shown the fates. He holds near his failure for its loss and beauty.

Nick Ray, on the other hand, shows John Derek for all he is worth. A pantheon performance of olive complexion and blue eyes, quivering lip, a great hurt in his heart. Watch Cagney get pulled away by the mob in the beginning and how much he withholds in his body, and then watch John Derek's limp body in the same scene or when they first confront in the desert, wind blowing. To see these people hurt in their own ways, ways truer to the actor than to the character, is how Ray consistently gets such performances.

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