The Woman on the Beach

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Movie Info

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. But Peggy is trapped in a loveless marriage to Tod (Charles Bickford), a former painter whose career was cut short by blindness. Scott and Peggy become romantically involved, yet they can't help but feel that Tod knows more than he's letting on -- and his blindness may just be a ruse he uses to spy on Peggy.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Jean Renoir
Producer:

Jack J. Gross
Writer:

Frank Davis, Jean Renoir
Release Date (Streaming):

Jun 21, 2011
Runtime:

1h 11m
Production Co:

RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

Cast & Crew

Joan Bennett
Peggy

Robert Ryan
Scott

Charles Bickford
Tod

Nan Leslie
Ewe

Walter Sande
Otto Wernecke

Irene Ryan
Mrs. Wernecke

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Critic Reviews for The Woman on the Beach

All Critics (3) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (3)

The filmmaker, living in California in self-imposed exile from France, cuts loose with vicious moods and creative rages that feel like the destruction of an old world and the violent birth of new possibilities.

May 5, 2014 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
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Renoir's expert framing and intuitive direction bring out the vivid emotions of this setup. For such a thin film, the result packs a potent punch.

June 17, 2011 | Full Review…

Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
One can only imagine how the pic would have looked without RKO interference.

February 10, 2011 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
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