Woman on the Run is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Norman Foster and starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe.

In San Francisco, artist Frank Johnson observes the gunshot murder of an important trial witness by a gangster seeking extortion money.

When Frank sees bullet holes in the chest area of his shadow on a nearby wall and realizes how close he had come to death, he panics and surreptitiously escapes the police.

With Eleanor taking a terrifying roller coaster ride to elude the police, Danny is revealed as the villain as he confronts Frank at gunpoint.

[4] Twentieth Century-Fox paid Fidelity Pictures $50,000 to delay production of the film while Sheridan completed work on Stella.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote:Since it never pretends to be more than it is, "Woman on the Run" ... is melodrama of solid if not spectacular proportions.

Working on what obviously was a modest budget, its independent producers may not have achieved a superior chase in this yarn about the search by the police and the fugitive's wife for a missing witness to a gangland killing.

But as a combination of sincere characterizations, plausible dialogue, suspense and the added documentary attribute of a scenic tour through San Francisco, "Woman on the Run" may be set several notches above the usual cops-and-corpses contributions from the Coast ... "Woman on the Run" will not win prizes but it does make crime enjoyable.

[16]Los Angeles Times reviewer Philip K. Scheuer wrote:For a Hitchcock-type thriller ... 'Woman on the Run' is really quite a presentable little affair, directed (after one of the talkiest openings on record) with fair imagination by Norman Foster, who also collaborated on the screen play.