Woman On The Run

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Woman On The Run (1950)

American Film Noir Crime Drama.

Frank Johnson, an unsuccessful painter who is out walking his dog one night when a car stops nearby, becomes an eyewitness to a murder. He’s pursued around San Francisco by his wife, who suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage, the police, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation, and the killer.

The film was based on the April 1948 short story “Man on the Run” by Sylvia Tate and filmed on location in San Francisco.

The only known print of this film was destroyed in a fire in June of 2008, leaving only a few very low-quality–basically unwatchable–prints in the public domain. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic’s “Noir Alley”, did a bit of detective work and found a 35mm print at the British Film Institute. He had it shipped to UCLA Film and Television Archive where, with financial help from Muller’s own organization, the Film Noir Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Charitable Trust, the film was preserved for future generations. This is one of Muller’s favorite noir films for a number of reasons, including the pairing of two great actors, Ann Sheridan and Dennis O’Keefe , who wrote their own dialogue, but mostly because of its use of San Francisco, Eddie’s home town, while it was still a bustling, growing, blue-collar seaport.

Woman On The Run was the film debut of Jane Liddell, in the role of “Messenger Girl”

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