This is a very decent thriller, and while it's New Orleans' loss that there wasn't budget to shoot there, the real San Francisco locations are fabulous, a tour of the City As It Was almost on a par with Hitchcock's "Vertigo". It's not as well-crafted as could be, but that's easily forgiven.
Sheridan is in fine form and looks great, despite a rather dorky hairstyle. As has been pointed out, she's not exactly 'On the Run', but on a hunt for her troubled hubby. We can't help rooting for her all the way, and the Production Code will guarantee that a Good Wife will get her man.
For those of us with fond memories of Playland-at-the-Beach, this picture is an especial treat. If there was any temptation to set some of the ongoing chase in the wonderful Funhouse (Orson Welles had covered that three years before in "The Lady from Shanghai"), it was resisted in favor of roller coaster suspense. But we do get a shot of the Funhouse's iconic mechanized mannikin Laughing Sal, who always seemed rather alarming to me as to most children. There she was in the window, a demented red-headed gap-toothed monster! It's a relief to have the camera switch back to Sheridan.
Plenty to like in this little-known opus.
Sheridan is in fine form and looks great, despite a rather dorky hairstyle. As has been pointed out, she's not exactly 'On the Run', but on a hunt for her troubled hubby. We can't help rooting for her all the way, and the Production Code will guarantee that a Good Wife will get her man.
For those of us with fond memories of Playland-at-the-Beach, this picture is an especial treat. If there was any temptation to set some of the ongoing chase in the wonderful Funhouse (Orson Welles had covered that three years before in "The Lady from Shanghai"), it was resisted in favor of roller coaster suspense. But we do get a shot of the Funhouse's iconic mechanized mannikin Laughing Sal, who always seemed rather alarming to me as to most children. There she was in the window, a demented red-headed gap-toothed monster! It's a relief to have the camera switch back to Sheridan.
Plenty to like in this little-known opus.