The Girl on the Pier

1953
1h 5m

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A London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pie... Read allA London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.A London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.

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Veronica Hurst appears 'by arrangement with Associated British Picture Corporation Ltd'.

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Holiday
Written by Vic Connor and Len Prossor

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7/10

Murder in the Waxworks

'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.