Expert: Mel - 1/12/2011

Question
(note this question was also moved to the "question pool" because another expert was unavailable to answer)  During the mid 1950's I saw a B&W movie on TV that was probably filmed in the 1940's or even earlier.  I remember the final scene:  apparently a sailor had been falsely accused of murder and was in hiding with his girlfriend's help.  A newspaper reporter has persuaded her to set up a meeting between him and the sailor, supposedly so the sailor could give his side of the story.  The meeting was set for nighttime on a waterfront below a boardwalk, near a carnival.  The reporter suggests to the girlfriend that she take a turn on a ferriswheel while he meets with the sailor.  He buys her a ticket, she gets on the ferriswheel, and in the middle of the ride she begins to realize that something the reporter had said to her could only have been known by the real murderer.  She begins screaming hysterically as the ferriswheel goes around and around - she can't get off and she realizes she has probably sent her sailor to his death at the hands of the  murderer. Do you have any idea what movie it could be?

Answer
Hello Norine,

That sounds like the 1950 film "Woman On The Run", which starred Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe.
Have a look here ........ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_on_the_Run

If you go to the following site, you can watch the whole film on your PC.

http://www.archive.org/details/Woman_on_the_Run


Glad to be of help. Cheers........Mel.