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![]() San Francisco's 1950 skyline is a cinema favorite. Today this skyline is buried in towers but can be conjured by the view from Calhoun Terrace. |
Woman on the
Run is one of the absolute best San Francisco movies and one of the
least seen. Without giving away spoilers from the relatively obscure 1950
noir story, it's about a sensitive man with a heart condition, the only
witnesses to a mob murder, who goes into hiding. His estranged wife is
not sympathetic to the police, whose previous witness was the victim! So
you have the police, a murderer, and a woman, running all over San Francisco
in search of the missing man. A picture postcard and more, Woman on the
Run is deep in its authentically San Franciscan heart. Led around town
by a clue from her artist husband, Ann Sheridan learns who the man really
is and understands him through their life together as reflected in San
Francisco. Sheridan is steely yet warm - part Joan Crawford, part Lucy.
Directed by Norman Foster, with Ross Elliot as Frank Johnson and Dennis
O'Keefe as newsman Leggett. The Johnson's apartment is a hybrid location
named "136 Alta Linda Apt. 4D" in
the script. From there Sheridan's adventure takes her to these stops and
more:
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