KEEP ON RUNNING: Film fugitives

In the new series of Prey (9pm, ITV), Philip Glenister’s prison officer is forced to go on the run.

Hollywood has long favoured plots involving innocent people trying to evade capture…

North By Northwest (1959)

Cary Grant is the hapless advertising exec forced to go on the run – along with Eva Marie Saint’s mysterious blonde – when he is mistaken for a government agent by a group of spies.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

In Billy Wilder’s comedy classic, musicians Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis witness a mob massacre, and hightail it out of town disguised as members of Marilyn Monroe’s all-girl band.

The Fugitive (1993)

Convicted of his wife’s murder, Harrison Ford’s Dr Richard Kimble escapes custody and hits the ground running. On the trail of the real killer, he’s pursued by Tommy Lee Jones’s dogged US Marshal.

Double Jeopardy (1999)

Like Kimble, Ashley Judd’s Elizabeth Parsons is convicted of killing her spouse – except her husband faked his death. Out on parole, with Tommy Lee Jones in pursuit (again), she’s chasing revenge.

Minority Report (2002)

This sci-fi thriller is set in a world where murder is stopped before it happens. Tom Cruise is the ‘pre-crime’ cop framed for homicide, tearing around trying to clear his name and expose a covered-up murder.