Female on the Beach

Female on the Beach (1955)

She was TOO HUNGRY FOR LOVE... to care where she found it!

Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.

Date of release
1955-08-19
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (37)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Drama, Crime, Thriller, Romance, Mystery
Director
Joseph Pevney

Casting

Interesting facts

Female on the Beach is a 1955 American film noir crime-drama directed by Joseph Pevney starring Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler in a story about a widow and her beach bum lover. The screenplay by Robert Hill and Richard Alan Simmons is based on the play The Besieged Heart by Robert Hill. The film was produced by Albert Zugsmith.

Production

The script was based on an unproduced play by Bob Hill, The Besieged Heart. Albert Zugsmith bought the rights and worked on the script with Bob Hill. He then sold the project to Universal who were looking for a vehicle for Joan Crawford. The studio also hired Zugsmith to produce, starting a relationship between him and Universal which lasted several years.

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