On the Run (1993)
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| German title | On the run |
| Original title | The Fugitive |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 130 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Andrew Davis |
| script |
Jeb Stuart , David Twohy |
| production | Arnold Kopelson |
| music | James Newton Howard |
| camera | Michael Chapman |
| cut |
Don Brochu , David Finfer , Dean Goodhill , Dov Hoenig , Richard Nord , Dennis Virkler |
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On the Flucht (original title: The Fugitive , English for "The refugee") is a feature film by director Andrew Davis from 1993. It is based on the US television series On the Flucht or Dr. Kimble on the run . The main roles were played by Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones , who won an Oscar for his role . The film was nominated in six other categories, which is unusually high for an action thriller. In 1998 the sequel appeared on the hunt .
action
Richard Kimble is a successful doctor until he is charged with the murder of his wife. Since the perpetrator cannot be identified, his testimony is not believed to have wrestled with the murderer of his wife, who according to Kimble's testimony was one-armed. Ultimately, Kimble is sentenced to death on the evidence. On the way to the prison , where he is to be executed by lethal injection , the prison bus crashes as a result of an attempt to rescue other prisoners and collides with a train. After saving the life of a police officer, Kimble escapes and goes into hiding.
From now on, Kimble is on the run, pursued by the ambitious US Marshal Samuel Gerard, who is very experienced in search operations , who wants to capture him again by all means. Time and again the fugitive succeeds in outsmarting the team of hunters or escaping through daring actions. He escapes through a dam overflow at dizzying heights, takes an apartment in Chicago and, disguised as a caretaker, does research in a hospital about one-armed people who come into question as possible perpetrators in order to exonerate themselves. There he corrects a misdiagnosis and thus saves another human life, which however causes him to be discovered and targeted by investigators. Kimble tries to find the one-armed man with the results of his research. Visiting a suspect who is in jail for another crime, Gerard almost arrests him and only finds himself at the last minute in the turmoil of the St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago.
Kimble eventually finds the one-armed man who killed his wife. His name is Fredric Sykes, he is the safety officer for the pharmaceutical company Devlin McGregor and was appointed by its CEO, Dr. Charles Nichols, assigned to Kimble. Kimble finds out that the launch of a new drug called Provasic shall be based on falsified research results, which the company tried to cover up. Kimble had studied the drug and found that it caused severe liver damage. For this reason, Kimble was supposed to be murdered by Sykes in order to cover up the research results. The murder of Kimble's wife, however, was an unfortunate coincidence, as he was initially not at home at the time of the attack. On the subway ride from Kimble to the Chicago Hilton Hotel , where Nichols is presenting the new drug at a convention, Kimble is attacked by Sykes. A policeman who tries to arrest Kimble is shot by Sykes before Kimble can overpower him. Kimble escapes, but is now falsely pursued by the Chicago police as a cop killer.
Kimble finally arrives at the hotel and wants to confront Nichols. However, both are caught up in a fight that takes them to the roof of the hotel. Meanwhile, the marshals around Gerard take up the chase. Kimble and Nichols end up in the hotel laundry, where Gerard tries to catch them. Kimble knocks out Nichols when he points a gun at Gerard. Kimble is taken away in handcuffs and the injured are removed by paramedics. Gerard, who gradually realized during the hunt for Kimble that he had been wrongly convicted, removes the handcuffs at the end.
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The film is based on the series Auf der Flucht or Dr. Kimble on the run from the 1960s, in which David Janssen played the title character and Barry Morse the Lt. Gerard, who pursued the fugitive relentlessly. The series, in turn, is based on the real crime case of the innocent murderer convicted Samuel Sheppard . The escape, however, is an invention of the series.
Reviews
According to filmstarts.de, the film “not only works so well because of its great action and staging quality”. So it is "the interplay between Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones as well as the story that seems realistic despite all the action that lift the film into higher spheres". The two actors interpreted their roles as "excellent and very human". The plot was "put together intelligently" and could "be considered a drama in addition to its undoubted thriller qualities". In summary, filmstarts.de judged: "A perfectly thought-out story, thorough characterization, excellent performance and staging brilliance should satisfy even the discerning cineast".
According to Cinema , Auf der Flucht shines“with a breathless hunt, two great stars and wonderfully sarcastic dialogues”. The conclusion was: “Action without a break, tension without end.” The lexicon of the international film spoke of a “no-frills crime story that is quite captivating in the first half, but turns out to be too thin-blooded towards the end”. Therefore, "a little more mystery and a more ambivalent main character" would have been better for the film.
For Die Chronik des Film , Auf der Flucht was “a technically excellent and fast-paced action film with creative teamwork”. Critic.de praised the “extravagant set pieces” that “accompany the action-packed and suspenseful course of the story”, with “Tommy Lee Jones beginning to steal the show from his co-star at some point”.
Awards (selection)
- Tommy Lee Jones received the Oscar and the Golden Globe for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Samuel Gerard .
- The film received another six Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Score (James Newton Howard), Best Cinematography (Michael Chapman), Best Editing, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing.
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.
continuation
- The sequel On the Hunt puts Deputy US Marshal Sam Gerard (again Tommy Lee Jones) and his team of investigators (including Robert Downey Jr. ) at the center of the plot. Wesley Snipes plays the fugitive as a fugitive who has also been convicted of innocence.
Trivia
The hospital where Dr. Kimble self-medicating is Cook County's John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital . The Cheoah Dam in Deals Gap , North Carolina was the backdrop for the dam scene. Neil Flynn , who plays a subway cop in the film, plays the caretaker in the hospital comedy series Scrubs . There, the caretaker is asked about his past as an actor and about this role.
The parody Leslie Nielsen is very suspicious from 1998 is basically based on the film On the Run .
The dam jumping scene is also taken up in the Simpsons episode, Lisa's rival , when Milhouse escapes from the FBI. In the Simpsons episode Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 2 , Homer, like Richard Kimble, jumps out of the prisoner van in chains and escapes to a hospital.
Anthony DiNozzo ( Michael Weatherly ) quotes Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel Gerard in various episodes of the Navy CIS series , for example in the tenth episode of the fifth season Like a Wild Bull when one is looking for a fleeing Marine.
Jake Peralta ( Andy Samberg ) quotes Tommy Lee Jones' address at the dam in the eleventh episode of the fourth season ( Just the two of us and the towel makes three ) of the American television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine . The search for fugitive criminals in Brooklyn , New York is the reason for the reference after they were also able to escape during a prisoner transport.
synchronization
The film was set to music at Deutsche Synchron in Berlin . Frank Schröder and Matthias Müntefering wrote the dialogue book, Michael Richter directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Richard Kimble | Harrison Ford | Wolfgang Pampel |
| Marshal Samuel Gerard | Tommy Lee Jones | Ronald Nitschke |
| Helen Kimble | Sela Ward | Franziska Pigulla |
| Dr. Charles Nichols | Jeroen Krabbe | Lutz Riedel |
| Dr. Anne Eastman | Julianne Moore | Astrid Bless |
| Deputy Marshal Renfro | Joe Pantoliano | Stefan Fredrich |
| Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs | Daniel Roebuck | Norbert Gescher |
| Deputy Marshal Poole | L. Scott Caldwell | Sabine Sebastian |
Web links
- On the run in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- On the run at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- On the run at Metacritic (English)
- On the run in the online film database
- On the run in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the Run - 1993 film . In: Filmstarts.de . Retrieved January 1, 2015.
- ↑ On the run on filmstarts.de
- ↑ On the run on cinema.de
- ↑ On the run. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Die Chronik des Films , Chronik Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-86047-132-5 .
- ↑ On the run on critic.de
- ↑ On the run on fbw-filmbassy.com
- ↑ On the run. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .