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One night on the beach, Michel meets a beautiful stranger who gives herself to him. He finds out that she's a daughter of the property guardian in which he lives. The next morning the girl was found dead near the beach.

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    • Author: Ximinon
    Michel Boisrond has made rather mediocre movies in an undistinguished career.

    "Un Soir Sur La Plage" is relatively interesting;the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly,Martine Carol,a cast against type Michel Galabru as the cop (whereas he was essentially a comic actor then ,in such comedies as "The Gendarmes series " where he would team up with De Funes and Genevieve Grad ,here cast as Carol's daughter).The biggest surprise is sixties starlet Daliah Lavi as a simple-minded nymphomaniac girl who is murdered on the beach.

    The story is essentially a whodunit :in Martine Carol's house,there are many people (too many people actually) and they all have a reason to get rid of her ;do not expect a tour De force à la Agatha Christie :the solution is banal.

    More interesting than the plot : the subjects which are hinted at : abortion,still illegal in 1961,and even euthanasia (although Cayatte and Richard Pottier had already broached the latter in the fifties ) And the last picture ,with the cop and his culprit in the car ,makes the ending less trite it might have seemed
  • Credited cast:
    Martine Carol Martine Carol - Georgina
    Jean Desailly Jean Desailly - Dr. Francis
    Michel Galabru Michel Galabru - Le commissaire
    Gianni Garko Gianni Garko - Heinrich
    Geneviève Grad Geneviève Grad - Sylvie
    Henri-Jacques Huet Henri-Jacques Huet - Michel Saint Hamand
    Daliah Lavi Daliah Lavi - Marie
    Annibale Ninchi Annibale Ninchi - Pépé
    François Nocher François Nocher - Oliver
    Rellys Rellys - Le jardinier
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