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Thanks, everyone for all of the suggestions.

I had done the AI thing before I asked and gotten all of the same suggestions. As I indicated, I saw it for the first time on late night TV in the 1970s and it was black and white, so it’s not a film from 2011 or 1991, and I fed back into the AI. I did get China Doll and some of the others back. Those have some similar plot elements, but not the ones I am looking for.

For comparison for anyone familiar with it, the movie has a similar feel (production style, budget) to a film like King of Arizona.

A key distinctive from China Doll is that the story is told in flash back by the hobbled woman telling her story so all of the elements of the film are as witnessed by that woman and the man in the story is seen in that regard - not the main character, like is the case with Victor Mature in China Doll whose character is the protagonist.

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I’ll keep looking.