RUN FOR COVER is a somewhat bloated Hollywood western of 1955, directed by that maestro of the genre, Nicholas Ray. It's one of his lesser movies that suffers from a script which more often than not descends into pedestrianism in the dragged-out romantic sub-plot involving a farmer's wife. The unusual opening has an innocent guy mistaken for a train robber before turning the tables and becoming town sheriff instead. James Cagney, aged so much that he's barely recognisable, is okay as the hero, but the script gives him little meat to work with throughout and the excitement level is low.
Review of Run for Cover
