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A waxworks curator turns to murder after discovering his wife has been less than faithful to him. Reviews Cast & Crew Photos Media Info. The patchy narrative is given a boost by imaginative ...
Nifty Brit noir with dodgy nightclub singer Ron Randell bumping uglies with Veronica Hurst, much to the annoyance of her husband who also happens to be Randell's former partner in crime. A decent, brisk watch set on Brighton pier.
THE GIRL ON THE PIER is a low rent British crime film in which the criminal elements take second place to typical character-focused drama. We start off with a group of ordinary characters interacting in a train carriage, Marjorie Rhodes standing out among them.
A London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.
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- Crime
- Lance Comfort
- 1953-11-16
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Terry Staunton Radio Times. The patchy narrative is given a boost by imaginative location shooting and genuinely spooky action in the aforementioned...
The Girl on the Pier is a 1953 British crime film produced by John Temple-Smith, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Brian Roper, Campbell Singer and Anthony Valentine. Crime melodrama set on Brighton Pier.
Recent reviews. Sometimes listed as a horror film, the British Girl on the Pier is a Spartan little melodrama starring the alluring Veronica Hurst as the title character. The wife of wax museum curator Campbell Singer, Hurst carries on with Singer's partner Ron Randell.
