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Woman on the Run (1950)

Woman on the Run poster
Directed by
Norman Foster
Genre
drama film, film noir, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 112 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman goes looking for her husband who vanished after witnessing a murder. She tries to find him before the police or the killers do.

suspensefulnoir-ishfast-pacedgrittymoodytenseurbanmysterious

What happens

Woman on the Run is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Norman Foster and starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe. The film was based on the April 1948 short story "Man on the Run" by Sylvia Tate. The film exists in the public domain and was restored and preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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