The Girl on the Pier (1953) Poster

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7/10
Murder in the Waxworks
richardchatten26 April 2021
'A Major Production', proudly declare the credits of this diverting little cross between 'Holiday Camp' and 'Brighton Rock' with a bit of 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' also thrown in.

The usually demure Veronica Hurst is unusually cast as a high maintenance femme fatale ("You're costing me a fortune in lipstick") who finds comfort in the strong arms of virile Ron Randall ("Sweetie, I'd go anywhere with you") playing an embittered ex-con who moonlights as an end of the pier crooner (as you do).

William McLeod's excellent Brighton photography is meanwhile constantly at odds with Ray Terry's annoying score, although as it progresses it will strike a chord with anyone who already finds clowns creepy.
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6/10
Passions Run High In Brighton
malcolmgsw9 July 2021
Made at the venerable Brighton Studios,a survivor of the silent era. Shot against the background of fifties Brighton. Charles Victor is the Detective on what turns out to be a busman's holiday. Campbell Singer is unusually cast as a villain. I bet it wasn't him clambering over the girders of the pier. The plot is serviceable and passes an entertaining hour.
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5/10
Great scenes of Brighton and the pier
sharonjudithlee4 May 2021
Hard to take this film too seriously, but the Pier is fun, especially the policeman chasing the clown.
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4/10
Ludicrous
boblipton15 February 2023
Chief Inspector Charles Victor has to give a talk or three at a police convention in Brighton, so he takes the wife and three children on a holiday. However, the youngsters find a tale of lust, infidelity, blackmail and murder while he's trying to fish and the wife is trying to get some sun.

It starts off with one of those semi-documentaries of all the fun you can have at Brighton Pier, and descends into all of the stuff that makes B movies exciting, but does so in a rather disappointing manner, with annoying 13-year-old Anthony Valentine as the uncontrollable scamp, and ends with a rather ludicrous chase of the police being unable to catch a clown scampering around the bracings of the pier. Director Lance Comfort could direct a cheap movie with a decent script, but he can't manage much with this.
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4/10
Too cheap to be effective
Leofwine_draca28 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
THE GIRL ON THE PIER is a low rent British crime film in which the criminal elements take second place to typical character-focused drama. We start off with a group of ordinary characters interacting in a train carriage, Marjorie Rhodes standing out among them. The action then shifts to the coast, where characters become involved with minor criminals, love plots and the like, and violence eventually erupts. It's very low key and not particularly good; they needed a bigger budget in order to make this anywhere near interesting.
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