Female on the Beach
She was TOO HUNGRY FOR LOVE... to care where she found it!
1955 · 1h 37m · APPROVED
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Joseph Pevney
Overview
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.
Director and cast
- Joseph Pevney Director
- Joan Crawford as Lynn Markham
- Jeff Chandler as Drummond Hall
- Jan Sterling as Amy Rawlinson
- Cecil Kellaway as Osbert Sorenson
- Judith Evelyn as Eloise Crandall
- Charles Drake as Police Lieutenant Galley
- Natalie Schafer as Queenie Sorenson
- Stuart Randall as Frankovitch
- Marjorie Bennett as Mrs. Murchison
- Romo Vincent as Pete Gomez
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