Woman on the Run

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Woman on the Run

movie poster for Woman on the Run
Directed by Norman Foster
Produced by Howard Welsch
Written by Alan Campbell
Norman Foster
Sylvia Tate (story)
Starring Ann Sheridan
Dennis O'Keefe
Robert Keith
Ross Elliott
Music by Arthur Lange
Emil Newman
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) November 29, 1950 U.S. release
Running time 77 min.
Language English
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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.

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