Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Neil Doyle It's amazing that Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford are able to hold interest in this muddled melodrama even though the script is far from believable, the situations are trite and the ending is unsatisfactory.The story plods along with occasional bursts of melodrama that seem forced and unreal because the script is so banal. Ryan is attracted to Bennett, whose blind husband (Bickford) seems to welcome him as a friend. She gradually falls in love with Ryan while distancing herself emotionally from Bickford with whom she has a love/hate/guilt relationship over being responsible for him losing his sight.Jean Renoir's direction with the players is uneven because none of the characters are sharply defined. Nevertheless, Ryan and Bennett do the best they can with characters not motivated properly and Bickford acquits himself well as the bitter artist whose works keep him living in the past.None of the elements make the story palatable or even believable. What a waste of time and talent.

Martin Teller The Woman on the Beach A coast guard lieutenant gets caught in the middle of a tempestuous marriage. The film has a lot of psychological angles and is anchored by three strong characters with fine performances by Ryan, Bennett and Bickford. However, the story just never takes off and seems to float around without a destination. The emotions bubbling under the surface rarely materialize into compelling plot material and I was fighting boredom a lot of the time. I also found the cinematography uninspired (except for Ryan's surreal nightmare) and the score far too oppressive.6/10

Michael_Elliott Woman on the Beach, The (1947) *** (out of 4) This film features a very interesting story and there are a lot of great moments but at the same time there's a lot of silly and over the top moments and all of the blame has to go towards director Renoir. There's a very good love triangle going on here with a very well done mystery but for some reason Renoir lets the film slip into several over the top moments, which get a few laughs, which certainly wasn't the intent. One problem are the performances by Bennett and Ryan. Both fit their roles very nicely but each have scenes where their characters go so over the top that you've gotta wonder if Renoir was even watching what they were doing. There's also a scene near the end where it seems like Bennett was calling the shots on her own and doesn't know how to act in the scene, which turns out being rather confusing on her characters part. Bickford on the other hand delivers a very fierce and strong performance as the blind man with a temper. He clearly steals the show and acts circles around the other two leads. The film runs 71-minutes and goes by very fast and includes a couple very suspenseful scenes including one where the man wants to know if the husband is really blind and makes him walk on the edge of a cliff. Overall, the film kept me entertained but it's a shame this didn't turn out to be a masterpiece because all the pieces are there but just don't gel as well as they should.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Shell shocked as well as water logged navy man Let. Scott Brunnet, Robert Ryan, has never gotten over his experience in WWII when his ship was hit by a German undersea mine and sank. Trying to get his head together Scott in charge of a Coast Guard station on the Atlantic coast takes daily rides along the beach on his horse and one day runs into Peggy, Joan Bennett, picking up woods from an abandoned ship wreck. During a friendly talk with her Peggy, as if she were psychic, has the surprised Scott analyzed down to the tee about his past and the hang-ups he developed from his WWII experiences.Invited into Peggy's home Scott finds out, when he shows up unexpectedly, that her husband Tod, Charles Brickford, is a world renowned artist as well as being blind. Tod takes an immediate liking to Scott almost inviting him to stay overnight even though he has to report back to his Coast Guard station within the hour. It's then that the film takes on an almost surreal look with Scott becoming so obsessed with Peggy that he virtually leaves his totally crazy about him girlfriend Eve,Nan Laslie, at the altar and falls crazily in love with Peggy, a married woman.The relationship between Peggy and Tod is by far the most interesting element in the film with her feeling guilty for the condition that he found himself in. We, and Scott, find out from Peggy that she go into a drunken fight with Tod and broke a bottle over his head resulting in him ending up blind. It's the fact of Tod's blindness that Peggy stayed and put up with his abuse of her feeling guilty that she took away the one love that he had in the world; eyes to both see and paint with.The rest of the film has Scott and Tod play this weird game of chicken with Scott trying to prove that Tod isn't really blind in order to free Peggy from his clutches and keep her all for himself. Scott's actions are so outrageous that he almost has Tod killed twice in the film, by falling off a cliff and drowning in an Alantic storm, the second time with Scott almost getting killed along with.Tod soon realizes that it's his paintings that has him going somewhat insane with his obsessive actions towards both them and Peggy and finally decides to burn them in order to set himself and Peggy free. Being blind Tod in trying to set the painting on fire sets his and Peggy's house on fire as well leaving himself homeless and penniless with only the clothes, and his car, on his back. The film ends with Peggy realizing that Tod needs her more then ever leaves Scott standard on the beach, watching her and Tod's house burn to a crisps, and agree to drive back with Tod to New York to start a new life. As for Scott we can assume that he'll now go back to Eve whom he promised to marry earlier in the movie, that's if she'll be willing to take him back in the first place.