In this movie, a man is on the run (not a woman as the title), instead of letting the police protect him from this killer whose murder he witnessed. The killer took a couple shots at him, but missed by firing at his shadow by error, in the dark.
The wife, played by Ann Sheridan, is very nasty throughout, sarcastic, annoying, not trusting to the policeman who wants to help, but instead, she trusts the killer, who is claiming to be a reporter, without ever ONCE questioning his identity.
She eventually realizes who he is, though it sure takes her a while to put 2 and 2 together, but that only the man who killed the other man would know that shots were taken, and the man (Johnson) who is posing as the reporter told her that shots were taken.
NO, what REALLY bothers me about this movie, is the ending; it's a TOTAL insult to anyone's intelligence; when the killer - who also later threw a woman to her death for drawing a sketch of him - catches up to her husband, Frank - the man he's been after non-stop this whole damn movie - and they're underneath the ride, and all the noise around, and he's got the gun pointed at him, he DOESN'T shoot him!!! - Frank asks him why doesn't he? And he says to Frank (regarding his heart condition) words along the lines of "you've got a bad heart; I don't need too. You can't take tension." Then he proceeds to try and make Frank die from forcing him to be right under the ride, in order to see him die from fright?!?? This makes no sense. (It's unclear also if he's trying to strangle him under there, or just is pushing him). If he spent SO much effort to elude the police and fool Eleanor (Sheridan), he would have just shot Frank dead on the spot, and witness is gone, dead; that's all the guy wanted in this movie.
Instead, the cop winds up shooting him (we don't see this).
This is why I give this low a rating to this (otherwise I'd give it around a 4 or 5 maybe - and it IS filmed very nicely, in San Francisco) - I HATE movies where the killer stops from shooting the person he's after in order to find another way and thus get defeated so there can be a happy ending; Yes I want a happy ending, I don't want the bad guy to win, but the way this is done, is completely impossible to believe, and just destroys the movie right then and there - and this one really didn't have much going for it at all, just some tension and a very stupid woman in it.
By no means is this one of the better film noirs; in fact, seeing it now lets me know why I hadn't in a few years - but I did not remember the ending being so stupid and fake.
The wife, played by Ann Sheridan, is very nasty throughout, sarcastic, annoying, not trusting to the policeman who wants to help, but instead, she trusts the killer, who is claiming to be a reporter, without ever ONCE questioning his identity.
She eventually realizes who he is, though it sure takes her a while to put 2 and 2 together, but that only the man who killed the other man would know that shots were taken, and the man (Johnson) who is posing as the reporter told her that shots were taken.
NO, what REALLY bothers me about this movie, is the ending; it's a TOTAL insult to anyone's intelligence; when the killer - who also later threw a woman to her death for drawing a sketch of him - catches up to her husband, Frank - the man he's been after non-stop this whole damn movie - and they're underneath the ride, and all the noise around, and he's got the gun pointed at him, he DOESN'T shoot him!!! - Frank asks him why doesn't he? And he says to Frank (regarding his heart condition) words along the lines of "you've got a bad heart; I don't need too. You can't take tension." Then he proceeds to try and make Frank die from forcing him to be right under the ride, in order to see him die from fright?!?? This makes no sense. (It's unclear also if he's trying to strangle him under there, or just is pushing him). If he spent SO much effort to elude the police and fool Eleanor (Sheridan), he would have just shot Frank dead on the spot, and witness is gone, dead; that's all the guy wanted in this movie.
Instead, the cop winds up shooting him (we don't see this).
This is why I give this low a rating to this (otherwise I'd give it around a 4 or 5 maybe - and it IS filmed very nicely, in San Francisco) - I HATE movies where the killer stops from shooting the person he's after in order to find another way and thus get defeated so there can be a happy ending; Yes I want a happy ending, I don't want the bad guy to win, but the way this is done, is completely impossible to believe, and just destroys the movie right then and there - and this one really didn't have much going for it at all, just some tension and a very stupid woman in it.
By no means is this one of the better film noirs; in fact, seeing it now lets me know why I hadn't in a few years - but I did not remember the ending being so stupid and fake.