The Woman on the Beach (1947) DVD

Femme Fatale supreme Joan Bennett and Oscar nominated Robert Ryan star in this haunting and compelling 1947 RKO psychological drama directed by the great Jean Renoir. A traumatised war veteran, Lt Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), meets a strange and tormented couple living in an isolated beach house. Tod Butler (Charles Bickford) is a once-famous artist who is now blind, bitter and intensely jealous after an assault by his wife. Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett) is a passionate and wayward woman who stays with her husband out of guilt but soon falls for the charms of the handsome Burnett. Burnett spurns his fiancée (Nan Leslie) to start an affair with Peggy while her blind husband remains oblivious. Or does he? Burnett starts to suspect that the artist is faking his blindness and, as passions rise, one of the tortured characters begins to have thoughts of murder... Jean Renoir s last (and most controversial) American film, this chilling and complex drama has now been digitally restored and remastered especially for this.