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The Woman on the Beach is a 1947 film noir directed by Jean Renoir and starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is a love triangle drama about Scott, a conflicted U.S. Coast Guard officer (Ryan), and his pursuit of Peggy, a married woman (Bennett). Peggy is married to Tod, a blind ...
The Woman on the Beach: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie. A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
- (2.7K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Jean Renoir
- 1947-07
Coast Guard officer Scott (Robert Ryan) loves his fiancée, Eve (Nan Leslie), but he can't fight his attraction to the alluring Peggy (Joan Bennett), a lonely beauty he meets on the beach.
- (10)
- Jean Renoir
- Drama
- Joan Bennett
Originally slated as a tantalizing project for famous horror producer Val Lewton under the title Desirable Woman (and loosely based on the Mitchell Wilson potboiler None So Blind), Woman on the Beach became Renoir's fifth and final American film when he was brought on at the request of Bennett.
Peggy (Joan Bennett) feels trapped, lacking the will to break free of her husband Tod (Charles Bickford), a famed painter whose career and eyesight she destroyed during a violent quarrel.
- 3 min
- 5.7K
- Warner Bros.
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In Renoir’s beguiling, almost ghostly last film in Hollywood, a PTSD-riddled man (Robert Ryan) meets a woman (Joan Bennett) on a deserted beach, and soon their mutual lust comes to overwhelm each of their nightmarish interactions.
