Girl On The Run is a 1953 ultra-low-budget independent production, the plot of which drops a standard crime melodrama into the noirish, tawdry world of a carnival burlesque show.

According to filmographer Michael Pitts, "Released by Astor Pictures late in 1953, Girl on the Run was filmed as The Hidden Woman.

A Rose Tree Production, it opens and closes with scenes of a hysterically laughing mechanical clown and all its action takes place during one night at a tatty carnival.

[2] Newspaper reporter, Bill Martin, is assigned to investigate a crime ring working out of a carnival.

Arthur J. Berkhard, co-writer and co-director of the film, had a background in theater, having staged 14 Broadway productions beginning with the hit play Another Language, written by Rose Franken, in 1932.