Rex uses the confusion of a " running-of-the-bulls" event to escape, leaving his wife to the mercies of officialdom. But before the couple can enter British territory, they are detained by a Spanish police captain ( Fernando Rey). At one point, Rex's paranoia fuels his attempt to run Stephen's car off the road as he and Stella make a frenzied getaway drive to Gibraltar. In fact, Stephen speaks to Rex as if he knows what's going on with their scam without actually saying so. But later, Stephen suspects something is amiss with the couple. Subsequent events bear out Stella's guess Stephen is guilty of nothing more than looking for companionship with fellow Englanders. In time, though, Stella believes Stephen is only a sweet, lonely man who desires company with someone he had previously met. Rex believes Maddox's arrival in Spain is too coincidental, and that he is looking for evidence to expose the Blacks' insurance fraud. Eventually, he reminds her that he is Stephen Maddox, the agent who interrogated her after Rex's "funeral". Meanwhile, a British male vacationer who Stella recognizes but can't remember approaches her at an outdoor cafe.
This enables Rex to plan a future "trick" involving another insurance company in which, as before, he will fake his own death. While there, Rex steals the passport of drunken Jim Jerome ( John Meillon), a touring Australian sheep rancher, and doctors it with his own photograph. Even the insurance company's investigator, Stephen Maddox ( Alan Bates), fails to uncover the crime, freeing the Blacks to travel to Malaga for an extended vacation. In reality, he and Stella are perpetrating this ruse to collect £50,000 life insurance as revenge against the same company that refused to pay out on a previous claim. There's a good reason for this Rex ( Laurence Harvey) is still alive. Apparently, he died in a gliding accident, but his body was never recovered. Stella Black ( Lee Remick) attends a memorial service for her husband Rex. In Hollywood, an urban legend arose claiming that the film was a flop because it starred actors named Lee and Harvey. Investigators thought that these might be coded messages placed by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald until they discovered the source of the advertisements. Kennedy because of a viral marketing campaign that placed personal ads in the Dallas Morning News asking the "Running Man" to please call "Lee".
The film briefly came to the attention of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Lee Remick and Alan Bates co-starred with Harvey. The film opened at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 1 August 1963. It was filmed in San Roque, Cádiz, La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain, Gibraltar and Ireland. It was adapted by screenwriter John Mortimer from the 1961 novel The Ballad of the Running Man by Shelley Smith. The Running Man is a 1963 British-American neo noir drama film directed by Carol Reed, starring Laurence Harvey as a man who fakes his own death in a glider accident, then runs into trouble when an insurance investigator starts taking a close interest.
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