Sunday, April 07, 2024

Movie review - "The Girl on the Pier" (1953) **1/2

 An attempt to make a decent film, thank you director Lance Comfort. It benefits from location filming at Brighton Pier, and a mixture of different characters - a policeman on holiday with his wife, daughter and son, a former robber and hs trashy wife who is sleeping with a local compere, a journalist.

The actor who plays the journo is weird, Brian Ropert. Veronica Hurst (briefly a bit of a name) is the blonde girl, Ron Randell her sleazy lover (his American accent is weird it must be him I keep making the same note), Eileem Moore who plays the daughter married George Cole. All the casting is accomplished.

There's a little boy who witnesses crimes, as often the case in 50s British films. There's also a spooky clown at a fun fair.

I liked the movie.

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