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1958 film by Don Siegel For the documentary film, see Gun Runners.

The Gun Runners
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Don Siegel (as Donald Siegel)
Screenplay by	Daniel Mainwaring Paul Monash
Based on	To Have and Have Not (novel) by Ernest Hemingway
Produced by	Herbert E. Stewart Clarence Greene
Starring	Audie Murphy
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Chester W. Shaeffer
Music by	Leith Stevens
Production company	Seven Arts Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September 1958 (1958-09) (United States)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Gun Runners is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Don Siegel. It's the third adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, and stars Audie Murphy. Everett Sloane plays the part of the alcoholic sidekick originally played by Walter Brennan in the film's first adaptation, although Sloane's interpretation is less overtly comic. Eddie Albert delivers a bravura performance as a charismatic villain; other cast members include Jack Elam and Richard Jaeckel. Gita Hall, "Miss Stockholm of 1953", made her Hollywood film debut as Albert's girlfriend Eva.

The earlier remake, titled The Breaking Point (1950), was directed by Michael Curtiz and starred John Garfield.

Don Siegel, writing about the film in his memoirs, reflected, "There’s an old adage; never make a sea picture with a C budget."

Plot

Sam Martin (Audie Murphy) runs a charter boat with his alcoholic first mate, Harvey (Everett Sloane). He is forced by financial necessity to run guns for the Cuban Revolution but his employer seeks to maximise his profit.

Cast

Audie Murphy as Sam Martin
Eddie Albert as Hanagan
Patricia Owens as Lucy Martin
Everett Sloane as Harvey
Richard Jaeckel as Buzurki
Paul Birch as Sy Philips
Jack Elam as Arnold
John Qualen as Pop
Edward Colmans as Juan
Stephen Peck as Pepito (as Steven Peck)
Carlos Romero as Carlos Contreras (as Carl Rogers)
Gita Hall as Eva
Robert Phillips as Outlaw (uncredited)

Production

According to Don Siegel, star Audie Murphy had asked him to direct the film and United Artists agreed following the success of Baby Face Nelson. However, Siegel was worried about the low budget.

This was the first feature from the fledgling Seven Arts Productions. Director Don Siegel was unhappy with having to use Audie Murphy in the lead role. However Siegel wrote Murphy "was always polite and quiet with me, never any trouble."

The film was shot in Newport Beach, California,

Reception

Ron. of Variety called it a "well-done adventure yarn with average b.o. prospects".

Notes

Siegel, Don (1993). A Siegel film : an autobiography. Faber and Faber.

References

The Gun Runners at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
Siegel p 207
Lentz, Harris (May 30, 2019). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018. McFarland. pp. 299–300. ISBN 9781476636559 – via Google Books.
Siegel p 207
^ Ron. (September 17, 1958). "Film reviews: The Gun Runners". Variety. p. 7. Retrieved May 29, 2023.
Glenn Erickson, 'The Gun Runners', Turner Classic Movies accessed 3 October 2023
Siegel p 209

External links

The Gun Runners at IMDb
The Gun Runners at the TCM Movie Database

v t e Films directed by Don Siegel
Star in the Night (1945) Hitler Lives (1945) The Verdict (1946) Night Unto Night (1949) The Big Steal (1949) The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) No Time for Flowers (1952) Count the Hours (1953) China Venture (1953) Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) Private Hell 36 (1954) The Blue and Gold (1955) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Crime in the Streets (1956) Spanish Affair (1957) Baby Face Nelson (1957) The Lineup (1958) The Gun Runners (1958) Edge of Eternity (1959) Hound-Dog Man (1959) Flaming Star (1960) Hell Is for Heroes (1962) The Killers (1964) The Hanged Man (1964) Stranger on the Run (1967) Madigan (1968) Coogan's Bluff (1968) Death of a Gunfighter (1969) Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) The Beguiled (1971) Dirty Harry (1971) Charley Varrick (1973) The Black Windmill (1974) The Shootist (1976) Telefon (1977) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Rough Cut (1980) Jinxed! (1982)

Films directed by Don Siegel

Star in the Night (1945)
Hitler Lives (1945)
The Verdict (1946)
Night Unto Night (1949)
The Big Steal (1949)
The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
No Time for Flowers (1952)
Count the Hours (1953)
China Venture (1953)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Private Hell 36 (1954)
The Blue and Gold (1955)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Crime in the Streets (1956)
Spanish Affair (1957)
Baby Face Nelson (1957)
The Lineup (1958)
The Gun Runners (1958)
Edge of Eternity (1959)
Hound-Dog Man (1959)
Flaming Star (1960)
Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
The Killers (1964)
The Hanged Man (1964)
Stranger on the Run (1967)
Madigan (1968)
Coogan's Bluff (1968)
Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
The Beguiled (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Charley Varrick (1973)
The Black Windmill (1974)
The Shootist (1976)
Telefon (1977)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Rough Cut (1980)
Jinxed! (1982)

Ernest Hemingway

Bibliography

Novels

The Torrents of Spring (1926)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
To Have and Have Not (1937)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Nonfiction

Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Green Hills of Africa (1935)

Posthumous

Short stories

"Up In Michigan" (1921)
"Indian Camp" (1924)
"The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925)
"The End of Something" (1925)
"The Three-Day Blow" (1925)
"The Battler" (1925)
"A Very Short Story" (1925)
"Soldier's Home" (1925)
"The Revolutionist" (1925)
"Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" (1925)
"Cat in the Rain" (1925)
"Out of Season" (1925)
"Cross Country Snow" (1925)
"My Old Man" (1925)
"Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
"Banal Story" (1926)
"Today is Friday" (1926)
"A Canary for One" (1927)
"Fifty Grand" (1927)
"Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
"The Killers" (1927)
"The Undefeated" (1927)
"Che Ti Dice La Patria?" (1927)
"In Another Country" (1927)
"Now I Lay Me" (1927)
"A Simple Enquiry" (1927)
"Ten Indians" (1927)
"An Alpine Idyll" (1927)
"A Pursuit Race" (1927)
"On the Quai at Smyrna" (1930)
"Fathers and Sons" (1932)
"A Natural History of the Dead" (1932)
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1933)
"A Day's Wait" (1933)
"The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
"A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
"The Capital of the World" (1936)
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)
"Old Man at the Bridge" (1938)

Short story
collections

Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
In Our Time (1925)
Men Without Women (1927)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)

Story fragments

"On Writing"

Poetry

88 Poems (1979)
Complete Poems

Plays

Today is Friday (1926)
The Fifth Column (1938)

Screenplays

The Spanish Earth (1937 film)

Letters and
journalism

By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961 (1981)
Dateline: Toronto (1985)
The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)

Adaptations

The Sun Also Rises	1957 film 1984 film Opera The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Ballet
"The Killers"	1946 film 1956 film 1964 film Bukowski short story
A Farewell to Arms	1932 film 1957 film 1966 TV series
To Have and Have Not	1944 film The Breaking Point (1950) The Gun Runners (1958) Captain Khorshid (1987)
For Whom the Bell Tolls	1943 film 1959 TV play 1965 TV series 1984 song
The Old Man and the Sea	1958 film 1990 film 1999 animated film
Other film adaptations	The Macomber Affair (1947) Under My Skin (1950) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) Islands in the Stream (1977) Soldier's Home (1977) My Old Man (1979) After the Storm (2001) The Garden of Eden (2008) Across the River and into the Trees (2022)