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Kirottujen saari

Original title: The Woman on the Beach
  • 19471947
  • K-12K-12
  • 1h 11m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.3K
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Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford, and Robert Ryan in Kirottujen saari (1947)
DramaFilm-NoirRomance
A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Jean Renoir
  • Writers
    • Frank Davis(screenplay)
    • Jean Renoir(screenplay)
    • J.R. Michael Hogan(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Joan Bennett
    • Robert Ryan
    • Charles Bickford
  • Director
    • Jean Renoir
  • Writers
    • Frank Davis(screenplay)
    • Jean Renoir(screenplay)
    • J.R. Michael Hogan(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Joan Bennett
    • Robert Ryan
    • Charles Bickford
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 44User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett and Charles Bickford in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett and Charles Bickford in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett and Charles Bickford in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford, and Robert Ryan in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Kirottujen saari (1947)
    Joan Bennett in Kirottujen saari (1947)

    Top cast

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    Joan Bennett
    Joan Bennett
    • Peggy
    Robert Ryan
    Robert Ryan
    • Scott
    Charles Bickford
    Charles Bickford
    • Tod
    Nan Leslie
    Nan Leslie
    • Eve
    Walter Sande
    Walter Sande
    • Otto Wernecke
    Irene Ryan
    Irene Ryan
    • Mrs. Wernecke
    Glen Vernon
    Glen Vernon
    • Kirk
    • (as Glenn Vernon)
    Frank Darien
    Frank Darien
    • Lars
    Jay Norris
    • Jimmy
    Robert Andersen
    Robert Andersen
    • Coast Guardsman
    • (uncredited)
    Carl Armstrong
    • Lenny
    • (uncredited)
    Bonnie Blair
    • Girl at Party
    • (uncredited)
    Hugh Chapman
    • Young Fisherman
    • (uncredited)
    Kay Christopher
    Kay Christopher
    • Girl at Party
    • (uncredited)
    Maria Dodd
    • Nurse Jennings
    • (uncredited)
    Carol Donell
    • Girl at Party
    • (uncredited)
    John Elliott
    John Elliott
    • Old Workman
    • (uncredited)
    Carl Faulkner
    • Old Fisherman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jean Renoir
    • Writers
      • Frank Davis(screenplay)
      • Jean Renoir(screenplay)
      • J.R. Michael Hogan(adaptation)
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The last film that Jean Renoir directed in Hollywood, and a very painful experience for him as it was severely compromised.
    • Goofs
      Peggy says her husband's "optic nerve was cut," which is why he's blind. But, although she refers to the optic nerve in the singular, people have two optic nerves - one for each eye.
    • Quotes

      Tod: Peggy, did it ever occur to you that to me you'll always be young and beautiful? No matter how old you grow - I'll always remember you as you were the last day I saw you - young, beautiful, bright, exciting. No one who can see can say that to you. - - Peg, you're so beautiful... so beautiful outside, so rotten inside.

      Peggy: You're no angel.

      Tod: No. I guess we're two of a kind.

    • Crazy credits
      During the opening credits, the waves wash away one set of names before the next set is displayed.
    • Connections
      Featured in Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)

    User reviews44

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    6/10
    Flawed but worth seeing
    `Woman on the Beach' could have been a much better film; that's the tragedy of it. There's meat in this soup of a movie-mainly because of the performances of Charles Bickford and Joan Bennett. But the rest of it is awfully weak, including, somewhat surprisingly, Robert Ryan. The main failures are the screenplay and the score. The latter can be forgiven, although it's so heavy as to be intrusive, but the former is full of holes that leave the viewer baffled.

    I've seen the film three times now and I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happened to Ryan in his career during the war (Navy? Coast Guard? As a previous reviewer here suggested, it's weirdly unclear what Ryan's duties were before and after the war) and what is supposed to be wrong with him.

    The secondary characters seem to have wandered into the noirish landscape from a Ma and Pa Kettle film and frankly I'm not all that surprised that Ryan seems ambivalent about marrying good girl, Nan Leslie. Renoir doesn't seem to have known just what genre of a film he was making. We go from the woman's film to film noir to hokey comedy and back again. Irene Ryan is wildly out of place and her performance is over the top in the worst kind of way.

    But the gems in this film are Bennett and Bickford. Their characters' seamy, violent, sado-masochistic relationship is riveting and you can't help but wish that Renoir had spent more time focusing on it and less on the antics of the Wernecke brood. Joan Bennett usually needed good material (`Scarlet Street', `The Reckless Moment', `The Woman in the Window') to shine, but she does quite well here, particularly in her scenes with Bickford. There's also a wonderful moment where Ryan is beginning to realize that she isn't quite the put-upon little woman he thought she was. Her reaction is worth suffering through scenes about chocolate cake and the decorations at the coast guard station.

    Charles Bickford is fabulous as the blinded, bitter and jealous artist, easily outshining the usually excellent Robert Ryan, who appears merely dazed and confused. This was the film that got me interested in Bickford's career. I've yet to find the movie where he isn't excellent.
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    • mlzafron
    • Feb 17, 2001

    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 9, 1948 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • De fördömdas ö
    • Filming locations
      • Leo Carrillo State Beach - 35000 W. Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California, USA
    • Production company
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 11 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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