Woman On The Run

Frank Johnson, walking his dog alone on a dark and deserted San Francisco street, witnesses a gangland murder. The police ask him to testify to the Grand Jury, but instead he goes into hiding. Trailing him is Inspector Ferris and Johnson´s wife, Eleanor (Ann Sheridan), who thinks her husband is running away from their failing marriage. Newspaperman Danny Leggett (Dennis O´Keefe) joins in the hunt, promising to pay Eleanor ,000 if she´ll give him Frank´s story when they find him.

Eleanor and the reporter start gathering clues to Frank´s whereabouts. An unexplained suicide and unidentified corpse keep them on the run, dodging the police, private eyes and the mysterious killer - all of them trying to get to Frank first. Along the way Eleanor finds out things about her husband´s life that she never knew. By the time she realizes where he´s hiding and who´s really behind the gangster hit, it might be too late.

Ann Sheridan, whose film career started in the early 1930s, got her big break in 1937, appearing in The Great O´Malleywith Humphrey Bogart. In 1938, she appeared with James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces followed by a succession of film noir mysteries and dramas including, They Made Me a Criminal, with John Garfield and numerous others.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 30 Mars, 2008