Classic Streams: Movie Knight: Woman on the Run

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 and filmed on location in San Francisco. The film was restored and preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Plot. Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott) is an unsuccessful painter who is out walking his dog one night when a car stops nearby and he overhears an argument. The passenger of the car is trying to blackmail the driver. Frank overhears the driver say that people call him "Danny Boy". Then he sees the driver shoot the man trying to blackmail him and then push his body out of the car. The killer then sees Frank hiding in the shadows and takes some shots at him before driving away. The victim was going to testify before a grand jury against a gangster. Since Frank saw the shooter, Police Inspector Ferris (Robert Keith) wants to place him in protective custody so he can testify. Frank has second thoughts and slips away while the police are milling around. Ferris goes to Frank's wife, Eleanor (Ann Sheridan) to see if she can help him find Frank. She is not especially cooperative or concerned about her husband. She tells Ferris about her unhappy marriage and says that it's "just like him, always running away." Ferris asks her, "Running away from what?" She replies, "From everything." The police keep watch on her building in case Frank decides to come home. Eleanor later tries to sneak out of her building without being spotted by the police and encounters reporter Danny Legget (Dennis O'Keefe). He offers his help and $1000 for an exclusive story. They both go to a club that Frank often visits in order to sketch the dancers. Sam (Victor Sen Yung ), a waiter friend of Frank's, secretly passes along a message to Eleanor that Frank will send her a letter addressed to his co-worker Maibus (John Qualen ). But Legget reads the message too without Eleanor noticing. When Eleanor returns to her apartment, Ferris informs h