Synopsis
Woman on the Run (1950) is a Norman Foster noir you can watch online on iFILM — and one of the sharpest sleepers the genre ever produced. Walking his dog one night in San Francisco, Frank Johnson happens to see a gangster gun a man down.
The shooter clocks him. The police offer protection; Frank trusts none of it and vanishes into the city. His wife Eleanor figures he's running from their dead-end marriage, not from a killer. Teamed with a fast-talking reporter, Danny Leggett, she goes looking for him — unaware she's tracing the same trail the murderer is, and that he's watching her every move. Inspector Ferris, meanwhile, just wants his witness alive.
Ann Sheridan carries the whole thing: hunting for Frank, her Eleanor slowly rediscovers the man she married. Dennis O'Keefe and Robert Keith hold the screen on tight dialogue and real, location-shot streets. Lean, bitter and very much alive at 77 minutes. Stream Woman on the Run (1950) online on iFILM.
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