About
Part road movie, part man alone tale, Runaway was one of the first local features to steer a course away from the mainstream. Running from debt, David (Colin Broadley) leaves Auckland to travel around New Zealand. He encounters a deer culler (Barry Crump) and three very different women (played by Kiri Te Kanawa, model Deirdre McCarron and Bond beauty Nadja Regin). One of two Kiwi features in the 1960s, John O'Shea's moody outcast tale was marketed as a thriller, and renamed Runaway Killer in the UK. Tony Williams' stylish images were partly inspired by new wave director Michelangelo Antonioni.
Key Cast & Crew
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Barry Crump
As: Clarrie
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Deirdre McCarron
As: Diana
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Filming Runaway in the Hokianga mangroves: Colin Broadley and Serbian actor Nadja Regin. Tony Williams is behind the camera.
Photo courtesy of Pacific Films
On location in Auckland for Runaway, February 1964: Tony Williams (at right) prepares to film actor Doraine Green, while Michael Seresin checks the focus.
Photo courtesy of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (Pacific Films Photo Collection)
The poster for Runaway.
Courtesy of Pacific Films
John O'Shea directs a scene from Runaway on the Franz Josef Glacier. At left are O'Shea and actor Deirdre McCarron, while at right Tony Williams holds the camera. Behind them (left to right) are sound recordist Ron Skelley, camera assistant Michael Seresin, and actor Barry Crump.
Original image courtesy of Pacific Films, as seen on the cover of John O'Shea's book Don't Let it Get You: Memories - Documents (Victoria University Press, 1999)
