Running from the Guns

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{{Infobox film

| name = Running from the Guns

| image = runningfromthegunsposter.jpg

| caption = Theatrical film poster

| director = John Dixon

| producer = Geoff Burrowes

| writer = John Dixon

| based_on =

| narrator =

| starring = Jon Blake
Mark Hembrow
Nikki Coghill
Terence Donovan
Peter Whitford

| music = Bruce Rowland

| cinematography = Keith Wagstaff

| editing = Ray Daley

| studio = Burrowes Film Group

| distributor = Hoyts

| released = {{Film date|1987}}

| runtime =

| country = Australia

| language = English

| budget = A$6.6 millionScott Murray, "Running from the Guns", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p228{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118180948 |title=Features Drama at former vice-regal residence Hello, hello: the real men drop in |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=60 |issue=18,346 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=23 December 1985 |accessdate=7 October 2019 |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news|title=The saga of the man from Merrijig|newspaper=The Age|date=

12 April 1986|page=Extra 7}}

| gross = AU $72,356 (Australia)[http://www.film.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/967/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria]. Retrieved 24 October 2012{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118180948 |title=Features Drama at former vice-regal residence Hello, hello: the real men drop in. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=23 December 1985 |accessdate=24 December 2015 |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia}}

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Running from the Guns (originally known as Free Enterprise) is a 1987 Australian crime thriller film directed by John Dixon and starring Jon Blake, Mark Hembrow, Nikki Coghill, Terence Donovan, and Peter Whitford. It is a buddy action film set in Melbourne.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p251{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/10-aussie-80s-films-attempted-jazz-things-inappropriate-rock-soundtrack/|title=10 Aussie '80s Films That Attempted to Jazz Up Things with an Inappropriate Rock Soundtrack|date=30 December 2019}}