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Female on the Beach is a 1955 American crime-drama film directed by Joseph Pevney starring Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler in a story about a wealthy widow and her beach bum lover. The screenplay by Robert Hill and Richard Alan Simmons was based on the play The Besieged Heart by Robert Hill.
Female on the Beach: Directed by Joseph Pevney. With Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling, Cecil Kellaway. Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.
- (1.4K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Joseph Pevney
- 1955-07-27
Female on the Beach 1955 Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.
- 2 min
- 14.2K
- Trailer Chan
The 1955 Joan Crawford melodrama Female on the Beach has achieved cult status thanks to its plummy dialogue and the on-screen teaming of the iconic star with Universal's top action star and the future Lovey Howell (of Gilligan's Island fame).
Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.
- 3 min
- 135
- Reel Classic Audio & Film Commentary Recordings
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house...the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell (or was pushed) from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her muscular beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home.
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In Female On The Beach widow Joan Crawford inherits a nice Pacific Coast beach house from her late husband. Recently Judith Evelyn was renting the place and she also got dead by falling off her terrace. Detective Charles Drake isn't sure it was an accident and his prime suspect is Jeff Chandler.
