The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1955
Female on the Beach
Directed by
Joseph Pevney
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Joan CrawfordLynn Markham
Jeff ChandlerDrummond Hall
Jan SterlingAmy Rawlinson
Cecil KellawayOsbert Sorenson
Judith EvelynEloise Crandall
Charles DrakePolice Lieutenant Galley
Natalie SchaferQueenie Sorenson
Stuart RandallFrankovitch
Marjorie BennettMrs. Murchison
Nan BoardmanMrs. Gomez (Uncredited)
Ed FuryRoddy (Uncredited)
Helene HeighCleaning Woman (Uncredited)
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