Monday 25 January 2016

The Woman on the Beach (1947 Jean Renoir)

Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford (Mr Lucky, Duel in the Sun, Fallen Angel).

Will Ryan recover from PTSD? Will he marry long-time gal Nan Leslie? Is Bennett a manipulator? Is Bickford blind? All intriguing questions, in atypical Renoir material, derived from novel 'None So Blind' (Mitchell Wilson), adapted by Michael Hogan and written by Renoir and Frank Davis.

Displays some fine montage work, itself a lost art, by Harry Palmer. Shot by Leo Tover and Harry Wild for RKO. Well made and acted, there's something a bit different about it.

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