A Day At The Beach (1970) 1080p w/Eng softsubs

Drama | UK | Colour | 82min | Director: Simon Hesera Cast: Mark Burns, Beatie Edney, Fiona Lewis, Maurice Roëves, Joanna Dunham, Jack MacGowran, Peter Sellers, Graham Stark, Eva Dahlbeck, Sisse Reingaard Bernie (Mark Burns) arrives at his ex-wife's home in order to take his daughter (Beatie Edney) - who thinks he is her uncle - out for a day at the beach. However, the day is not as joyful as hoped as the weather is rainy and miserable, and Bernie's alcoholism and obnoxious behaviour gets the better of him. Roman Polanski wrote the screenplay, based on James Brockway's translation of the 1962 book 'Een dagje naar het strand' by Dutch author Heere Heeresma. Shelved for over twenty years before it finally emerged, the film is set in an incredibly bleak unnamed, out of season English seaside resort, but was actually entirely filmed in Denmark. Roman Polanski, who wrote the screenplay, was present during the entire filming of A Day at the Beach. He was editing the picture and shooting inserts with the director, Simon Hesera, when news came of his wife Sharon Tate's murder in California. He left England that night, and the film was hastily finished without him. Peter Sellers credited himself as A. Queen, and plays a openly gay character in the film.