Director Edward L Cahn walked the line of mediocrity and YOU HAVE TO RUN FAST only provides incidental confirmation of that assertion: shoddy direction, childish script, amateurish acting by the leads Craig Hill and Elaine Edwards (who was she? I do not recall seeing her name on any film before!), paralytic retired US Army colonel Willis Bouchey who proves his lethal sniping from the comfort of his lounge's window sill after just turning over his handgun to the outlaws a minute earlier, rather rotund-bellied and inadvertently comic top villain Grant Richards as "Big Jim" Craven who has been searching for goody two shoes doctor Craig Hill all over the USA and gets to find him at Buckhorn Motel in tiny backwater town Summit City that does not even have a full-time medical doctor...
Poor Craig Hill can see the writing on the wall when even a local cop recognizes Craven but allows himself to be overpowered and shot through his chest before being placed against a tree. Amazingly, while drowning in his own blood, that superhuman cop manages to walk some distance to a makeshift operating table. Wonders never cease...
At least the title is spot on: you have to run fast... before you drown in all the senseless BS in this movie! An extremely generous 5/10 for the lovely 1950s cars on show.
