Music like Night Runner

The Night Runner is a 1957 American film noir drama film directed by Abner Biberman, produced by Albert J.Cohen and starring Ray Danton and Colleen Miller. Its screenplay was written by Gene Levitt. The story focuses on a released mental patient who falls in love but cannot control his violent urges.

Roy Turner, a mental patient with a violent past, is prematurely released from the mental ward because of overcrowding. The doctors tell him to avoid stressful situations. Realizing that he cannot handle the pressures of big-city life, he moves into a beachside motel in a small coastal town and falls in love with Susan Mayes, the daughter of the motel's owner. When her father discovers that Roy is a mental patient, he threatens to have him recommitted unless he leaves his daughter alone. Roy snaps, killing the man, and he and Susan flee down the beach. He tries to kill her by pushing her into the water but comes to his senses and rescues her. He then turns himself in.