The Woman on the Beach (1947)
- Starring:
- Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jean Renoir
Synopsis of The Woman on the Beach
A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a woman, Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett), walking on a beach, picking up pieces of wood. Butler is married to a grumpy, blind painter, Ted Butler (Charles Bickford). Despite his affections for his fiancée Eve (Nan Leslie), whose father is a boat builder, Scott falls in love with Peggy and soon breaks off the engagement. Peggy reveals that she blinded her husband years earlier by throwing a glass at him during an ugly spat, ruining his career and her own ambitions to be an upper-class socialite. Scott fears that Ted is suspicious that he is having an affair with Peggy and becomes so paranoid that he begins to believe that Ted is faking his blindness -- and sets out to prove it. This was the fifth and final American film by the great French writer-director Jean Renoir. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Woman on the Beach
- Joan Bennett - Peggy Butler
- Charles Bickford - Ted Butler
- Walter Sande - Otto Wernecke
- Glenn Vernon - Kirk
- Jay Norris - Jimmy
- Robert Anderson
- Drew Miller
- Bonnie Blair
- Harry Tyler - Carter
- Marie Dodd - Nurse
- Robert Manning - Coast Guardsman
- Charles Pawley - Barton
- Kay Christopher
- Robert Ryan - Lt. Scott Burnett
- Nan Leslie - Eve Geddes
- Irene Ryan - Mrs. Wernecke
- Frank Darien - Lars
- Hugh Chapman - Young Fisherman
- John Elliott - Old Workman
- Carol Donell
- Jackie Jackson - Johnnie
- Bill Shannon - Blacksmith
- Carl Faulkner - Old Fisherman
- Nancy Saunders - Girls at Party
- Harry Harvey - Dr. Smith
- Director(s):
- Jean Renoir
- Writer(s):
- Michael Hogan, Jean Renoir, Frank Davis
- Producer(s):
- Jack J. Gross
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