FredCDobbs

Oh.... I don't know if people in Southern Californa would put up with that.

There was a sub-plot in the film about how much her husband loved her. The used clothing salesman even showed her a manikin that looked like her that her husband had made. She seemed oblivious to his love, preferring to look upon him as a jobless wimp.

Try your inter-library loan system. Fill out a form, and your own library serches for the book in other libraries and they can borrow it for you at no cost.

That last scene in the film really got to me, with the sign..... "THERE IS STILL TIME ... BROTHER". The sign was a religious one, designed by a street preacher to attract converts. But in that last scene, everyone in the world is dead. Then the director does something brilliant. He shoots a close up of that sign, and all of a sudden we realize it has become a message to the theater audience, with a different meaning...... meaning it is still not to late to stop an atomic war. This actually puts the audience right into the film itself and we become part of the plot.

I think this is one of the best of the low-budget noir films.

I learned many years ago that the EASIEST way to get into the Hollywood movie busines is to use your own money to sponsor a film's budget by putting up some of your own money to make it. Then you are considered to be one of the "co-producers". Also, an independent "co-producer" calls all his rich friends begging them to invest in the film in the form of loans, to be paid back for a percentage of the gross income the film makes in the theaters.

Hey, you could open a psychiatrist's clinic on the side!

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I first saw that film in a theater in 1952. I liked the ladies in shorts and slips

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Right. Local Western cowboy red necks as Nazi spies. Rich upper-class well known New York lady a Nazi spy, holding a Nazi spy party and dance, with American military men invited. Nice American boy risks his own life to try to save a Nazi spy from falling. All rediculous. BUT, THIS IS A GREAT FILM!

It would be very interesting to know a lot more about the making of this film. IMDB lists Ann Sheridan as a "co-producer". The production company was Fidelity Pictures Corp., which made only 4 films in 1950-52. The film is exciting and interesting, but it looks like a low budget production with mostly low-level actors.

I'm really glad they let me use the library computer here at San Quentin.

1949... Good hair style, good photographer, good makeup: 1950, bad hair style, bad photographer, bad makeup:

Tom I think you are right. It might be a publicity still for TORID ZONE. But note how old she looks in WOMAN ON THE RUN, compared to I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE, which were made only 1 year apart.

I think Ann was made up to look a little too old in this film. She was still a beautiful woman and I think she needed better makeup. Also, she needed to smile more. Let me put it this way.... I wouldn't kick her out of a lifeboat. This is supposed to be her in APPOINTMENT IN HONDURAS, made two or three years later, and she looks great in this one: Here is I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE, made 1 year before WOMAN ON THE RUN: She looks older here:

Just wait until you're my age and you'll forget the whole film before you see it again.

Well, the director had directed several Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films (9 of them) so he didn't quite know that he should hold off on some of the major clues until later in the film. He did a good overall job on the film, and it was fast paced and interesting, but he didn't know how to give a more mature audience more subtle clues. Another problem was there were no other possible suspects in this film. Just a couple of close-ups of some mean looking cops could have provided some false suspects. Look at how many there were in THE THIRD MAN. All those peering and prying eyes of all the local Vienna characters looking at Holly Martins every where he went at night. Even that danged balloon man at the end looked like a crook and a suspect to me.

Ha! Yes! I just watched that part again and I think O'Keefe might be falling in love with her. He even asks her if she really wants to try getting back together with her husband and he seems disappointed when she says yes. He almost looks like he wouldn't kill her husband if she would fall in love with him and go off with him. But she doesn't want to do that. But when O'Keefe leaves her on the roller coaster, he tells her something about how "they" (the hoodlums) took a shot at her husband and they might try it again, so she had better not go with him to meet with her husband. Just as he locks her in the roller coaster car, and it starts to move, she remembers the police detective told her that no one knew that fact about the shot but her husband and the killer, meaning all the news reporters didn't know about it. And that is when she realized O'Keefe was the killer.

Somebody on this board told me that years ago there were film collectors, before there was home video tape or DVDs, and they collected 16 mm copies of 16 mm prints. The films were rented from distributors who rented them to colleges and film clubs, all 16 mm prints. Sometimes a "collector" would get a local big-city film lab to make a clandestine dub of the 16 mm prints. This resulted in low-quality 16 mm dubs of dubs of dubs circulating among collectors, 20 - 40 years ago, and many of these dubs are the kinds of copies that wind up on YouTube and Archive dot Org.

It's on ARCHIVE DOT ORG too. They say it is in the public domain. However, they probably show old inferior 16 mm prints, while TCM probably shows the newly restored 35mm version.

On YouTube, see: Woman on the Run (1950) ANN SHERIDAN The still frame at about: 1:15:07 I think the quick scene is inserted to add tension to the audience, so they would wonder who was shot and wonder if the cop was too late to save the hero.

My wording was a joke.... I meant it was an exciting ending, "like" a wild roller coaster ride!