Hell on the Beach

March. 30,1966      
Rating:
5.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Around this trio, revolves Heidi, an angelic blonde catalyst tragic events that will succeed when his troubled past catches up Alex.

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Reviews

Grimerlana
1966/03/30

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

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VeteranLight
1966/03/31

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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filippaberry84
1966/04/01

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Cheryl
1966/04/02

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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lor_
1966/04/03

HELL ON THE BEACH is an ambitious, odd-film-out in the cinematography of Jose Benazeraf, among France's best (and best-known) pornographers. He brought his A game and even left his porn trademarks at home, for a stylish, fairly abstract spy exercise.As far back as 1963 Benazeraf was filling the screen with very attractive nude Frenchwomen, getting his films exported to the U.S. on a regular basis. These were the days when he was in head-to-head competition with Max Pecas, and both auteurs caught the eye of Radley Metzger and other leading American genre distributors.BEACH has never been released in America, undoubtedly because, for once, Jose left out all of the nude scenes. To be sure, he has a luscious blonde leading lady who is frequently teasing the viewer and her co-stars by disrobing, but she oddly and chastely keeps her hands covering her unadorned breasts at all times, anticipating the Yip style of Hong Kong filmmaking 20 or 30 years in the future.A very, very lengthy pre-credits crawl identifies the story as having been based on a secret MI-5 mission, and there are brief scenes (plus token stock footage) expanding the film's scope to include London. But what makes BEACH interesting is precisely its atmospheric reliance on a story set on the beach & rocks plus an off-shore yacht, all of which figure prominently in the action.We're treated to intriguing twists and turns, double and triple crosses, and I was especially impressed by the fact that characters initially depicted as almost stereotypical villains and bad girls ultimately turn out to be the good guys (and also some vice versa, regarding clean-cut looking hero types).Why Benazeraf jettisoned his usual sex and nudity content is beyond me. It wouldn't have detracted from the film (which has many logical places to include it), and the fans have come to expect it. By a decade later he was reduced to grinding out by the pound hardcore porn lacking the high style exhibited here, so I'm confused as to why he went to the opposite extreme this time around.One early scene in an MI-5 computer center, with yards of computers and girls clacking away at their key-punch machines, plus an antiquated card sorter was pure nostalgia for me - I recall my grad school days at U. of Penn, dutifully going to the campus computer center to punch out those programs for loading into the big Ole computer to perform regression analyses -times sure have changed with the advent of the p.c. and now endless new gadgets.One bad girl is a busty blonde who has ample opportunity (and equipment) to show off her figure au naturel, but instead we're treated to a sci-fi style wall screen where she monitors the action in surveillance mode.Befitting a step-up-in-class assignment, Jose has a song sung by Sylvie Vartan which turns out to be Sonny Bono's "Baby Please Don't Go", titled "C'etait trop beau" in French. Chet Baker, who also scored his earlier Le concerto de la peur film, is back handling the moody background score. Visual quality is excellent, ranging from evocative eye closeups (on a par with Leone's Italian Westerns) to frequent Gothic shots of waves crashing against the rocks.

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