FEMALE ON THE BEACH
(Universal-International) F I could for a moment believe in the insensitive oaf (Jeff Chandler) who’s the hero of Female on the Beach, I'd feel sorry for him. Not only is he murderously attacked by his mother before she commits suicide; he also has to fall in love with Joan Crawford’s latest incarnation, a rich widow. The moment he sees her Jeff starts hanging around, throwing passes like a scrum-half until Joan asks him whether he "goes with the house, like the plumbing." This, as any Third former knows, means she’s fatally fascinated, and ignoring a suspicion that Jeff murdered the last woman of wealth in the neighbourhood, she quietly goes to her doom like the beautiful, solitude-loving, credulous, can’t-help-herself creature she is. To her doom? But hadn’t you tumbled to that bad blonde? My guess about this film is that someone vitally concerned with the story had a session in Joan’s private bar before she moved in for her highball marathon. The fumes gave me the hiccups in the back stalls. Gimme a hand with the empties, will ya?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 16
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183FEMALE ON THE BEACH New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 16
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