The Hunted

Laura Mead (played by celebrated ice skating queen-turned-actress Belita) insists she didn't do the crime. But she did the time and swore she would murder the incompetent attorney who represented her at her jewel theft trial. Not long after her release from prison, the attorney's gunned-down body is found. Laura flees. Tracking her is Johnny Saxon (Presnton Foster), the original detective who put Laura away for the crime (whom she also subsequently threatened with death), and who once loved her, and perhaps still does. The Hunted is one of three atmospheric forays into the noir netherworld that Belita made for Allied Artists/Monogram during the 1940's shadowy heyday of film noir. Jack Bernhard (Decoy, Blonde Ice) directs, and genre icon Charles McGraw (The Narrow Margin) has an uncredited role.