Woman on the Run

Infobox Film | name = Woman on the Run


caption = movie poster for "Woman on the Run"
director = Norman Foster
producer = Howard Welsch
writer = Alan Campbell
Norman Foster
Sylvia Tate (story)
starring =Ann Sheridan
Dennis O'Keefe
Robert Keith
Ross Elliott
music =Arthur Lange
Emil Newman
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = November 29, 1950 U.S. release
runtime = 77 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0043142

"Woman on the Run" is a 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by Norman Foster.

As the film opens, a man, Frank Johnson, is walking his dog in the city at night. He witnesses a man talking about a crime in a car and then gets shot. Johnson is seen and shot at by the man in the car but he misses. The killer flees in the car. It turns out the shooting victim was going to testify in a court case against a gangster and now the cops, now with a dead witness, want Johnson to testify. Johnson, at the scene of the crime with police, goes into hiding possibly to escape from possible retaliation from the mob. His wife, Eleanor (Ann Sheridan), suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. With the help of a newspaperman (O'Keefe), Eleanor sets out to locate her missing husband while the police and the apparent killer keeps tabs on her.

The film was shot on location in San Francisco and at Pacific Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California during the amusement park roller coaster scene.

Cast

*Ann Sheridan as Eleanor Johnson
*Dennis O'Keefe as Danny Leggett
*Robert Keith as Inspector Martin Ferris
*Ross Elliott as Frank Johnson
*Frank Jenks as Detective Homer Shaw
*John Qualen as Mailbus
*Steven Geray as Dr. Arthur Hohler