Woman On the Run (1950) - here's a brilliant little film desperately needing rescued from public domain hell. The Alpha Video copy I watched was bloody awful (still not as bad as Too Late For Tears though!) but still the quality shone through. A great B cast - Robert Keith, Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe are given snappy, rapid fire dialogue and a tight suspenseful plot (murder witness is pursued by estranged wife/cop/dog/killer) and have a ball. These's crazy expressionistic camera angles and off beat imagery a plenty culminating in a great fairground climax. Even the humour fizzes rather than clunks - I would be all over a remastered version of this one. 7.5/10 for The Picture, 3/10 for the picture.
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