filmklassik Possibly the most abysmally plotted melodrama I have ever seen. It plays like three separate movies all stitched together. In the first movie, an SF-based structural engineer and JFK-aficionado (David Janssen), married to cold fish Stephanie Powers, embarks on a 12 year plan to win half a million dollars using his foolproof blackjack system, fake his own death, and start a new life overseas. Or something. Along the way, Janssen's wife hires a loser PI to keep tabs on Jannsen. Janssen and the loser PI become fast friends (don't ask), and Jannsen uses his cardsharp skills to help the loser PI get out of debt to the mob. That's movie #2.In movie #3, Jannsen successfully fakes his own death and disappears, after which his "widow" Powers goes on to marry her longtime boyfriend (yep, all this time, Powers was cheating on Jannsen) and in the final 15 minutes, Jannsen and his new love, Linda Evans, board a plane to Israel THAT IS IMMEDIATELY OVERTAKEN BY HIJACKERS.You read that right.So, insane, disjointed plotting. Good actors spouting okay lines under the guidance of a skilled director. But the story lets everyone down. Including the viewer.

veggiecook I am so glad to actually own a copy of this great movie, starring the late great David Janssen. Allen Garfield and Stephanie Powers are also superb in this believable (perhaps based on truth?) adaptation of Charles Einstein's novel, The Blackjack Hijack. The movie is much better than the book,much better ending in the film version. Usually I enjoy the book better than the movie, not the case this time.I loved everything about this movie. I was always a big fan of David Janssen, this is probably my favorite movie that he starred in, shortly before his very untimely and tragic death.They don't make movies of this quality any more it seems, good from start to finish!Do take the time to view this one, should it show up on your late night TV lineup.

climbingivy Nowhere To Run is a top rate David Janssen movie.I believe that Nowhere To Run is one of David Janssen's best movies that he ever made.I just watched this movie again and it has not lost it's punch for me.David Janssen's career was cut off way too soon as far as I am concerned.The writing was imaginative,and I wonder if the plot for the story originated from a real case.I did not take my eyes off of the movie from the beginning of the movie to the very last second of the movie.Nowhere To Run has a great cast in addition to David Janssen, for instance Stefanie Powers.All of her movies are good,just like David Janssen's movies are all good.If you want to see a very good film with a great plot,superb writing and acting,then check this little beauty out.I have this movie.

tperezsr I first saw this movie as a 2 a.m. late-night feature in 1979, I then gleaned the TV guides for the next 12 years before it was re-run in my area, such was the impact that David Janssen's performance had on me.Janssen plays Harry Adams as a we suppose Janssen to be in real life, a disenchanted loner knowing there's something better right around the corner. With just a little help...The story is wrapped around the backdrop of President Kennedy's assassination and loss of his still-born child, a loss Harry knows but doesn't sharedwith his wife Marian, played coldly but superbly by Stefanie Powers, and her overbearing parents.Harry has a plan he slowly and meticulously puts into action while being pursued by bumbling P.I. Herbie Stoltz (Allen Garfield). Harry and Herbie accidently become friends sharing the same "something-better-around-the-corner" feeling albeit on different levels and different reasons.After Harry's plan is parleyed we're introduced to Linda Evans, a somewhat after-thought character, yet essential to the surprise and amusing ending.Throughout the movie Janssen gives his usual over-the-top performance that we've come to expect and really underestimate, while changing this character from caustic to encouraging. The backdrop of Kennedy's life intermingled through and through brings a hard, yet gentle touch of realism to the story, but it is Harry's plan that sets the intrigue.For me, it was worth the wait of 12 years to see this picture again. I hope you get the same enjoyment I did watching the character development of David Janssen's "Harry Adams".