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Run for Your Life

1987
78 Minutes
Foreign
Unknown Source

This title was released on VHS in 2001 by Video Search of Miami from the Italian motion picture with subtitles in Portuguese by Frementle Films. Major Charles Forsythe (Carradine) is a Vietnam veteran U.S. Army officer stationed near Rome. He is a brutal, if effective, commander who was "fragged" by his own men in Vietnam. When he is denied promotion because of the number of men injured during his training exercises, he takes out his anger by beating his pregnant wife Sarah (Hutton). She miscarries. On her release from the hospital, Sarah is determined to get back into shape and begins running. She meets Alan Morani (Segal) a former Olympic runner who is a paraplegic as the result of a car accident. Morani offers to coach Sarah to run in the Rome marathon, a race which her husband has won two years in a row. Sarah realizes that winning the race is the best way to avenge the death of her baby and destroy her husband’s ego. She moves in with Morani and wins the race, but that triggers one final assault by the deranged Major. The director of this film was Terence Young and the writing was provided by Robert Brodie Booth.

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