Female on the Beach

August. 19,1955      NR
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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
Nan Boardman as  Mrs. Gomez (Uncredited)

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