[ April 19, 2024 ]
Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema features my favorite genre. Woman on the Run (1950), a superb white-knuckler film noir, stars Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, and Joan Shawlee. Ann Sheridan is terrific; it's her picture and she owns it. The dialogue is sharp and fast, as is the pace, coupled with a great story line. This is Hollywood before it died in the late twentieth century.
The wife of a man who goes into hiding after witnessing a gangland killing, tries to track him down before the killer does (Fidelity Pictures 1950 Directed by Norman Foster 77 mins)
A great b-thriller from Foster, who had a (disputed) role in the making of Orson Welles’ Journey Into Fear (1943) and directed Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948). The picture moves apace on the streets, tenements, dives, and wharfs of San Fransisco, with a novel climax at a beach-side amusement park. A nice twist half-way through the movie ramps up the tension to the finale on and around a roller-coaster. Anne Sheridan is great in a role that moves from an indifferent wife in a failing marriage through a street-wise dame with a razor wit to the hysterical woman back in love desperately trying to save her husband’s life. The supporting b-cast performs well by playing stock characters with some considerable vitality and depth.The movie’s noir credentials come not only from low-key lighting and sharply angled night shots, but from an intelligent screenplay that explores the ennui of a disintegrating marriage and its revival after the protagonists learn more about each other from other people than they can have imagined. The savage murder of an innocent young cabaret dancer that gets in the way of the killer desperately trying to hide his identity, is off-screen, but poignantly handled to add a tragic undertone to the story.
Story continues below advertisementA truly engaging film. Read more at films noir.
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2 Comments
12 years ago
“This is Hollywood before it died in the late twentieth century.”
You mean before Hollywood was bought out and came under the iron boot of the transnational mega-corporations with their focus on making an international profit. Which is what happened in the 1980’s. Well, that’s odd — Pam dislikes corporate Hollywood, but loves the other modern corporate entities who have run America into the ground and ripped away its manufacturing base.
Discuss.
12 years ago
Granted, the movie is 61 years old, but a “spoiler” alert about the cabaret dancer would have been nice. Up to that point, I was thinking of tracking it down on Netflix or something.
