The Fugitive

Top-of-the-line crime thriller with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones

Released in 1993 and based on the TV show from 30 years earlier, The Fugitive stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent fugitive framed for murder. As he pursues the one-armed killer & those who pulled his strings, a determined U.S. Marshal (Tommy Lee Jones) hunts Kimble down from wilderness regions to the streets of Chicago.

The first 40 minutes contain the most action, hooking the viewer with an exhilarating bus wreck/train wreck followed by a phenomenal dam sequence. The rest of the movie is an intelligent and suspenseful cat-and-mouse chase with Kimble zeroing-in on those who framed him and why.

The Fugitive was a deserved box office hit, c...

Acclaimed surgeon Kimble (Harrison Ford) is used to the finer things in life, but not to the back of a prison van where he finds himself after being convicted of murdering his wealthy wife. Of course he protests his innocence, but its the chair for him - until, unexpectedly, his transportation makes an unscheduled stop and following the ensuing fracas he manages to escape. The local cops are content that all are accounted for, but Chicago Marshall Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) spots an extra set of leg irons and quickly deduces that the good doctor has got away. Now he isnt supposed to be a man with many survival skills, but it transpires that there is no-one scorned like a man falsely accused of killing his wife and so with the tenacious Gerard...