Thursday, April 15, 2021

Manina...la fille sans voile (1952)

 English titles: The Girl in the Bikini; The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

A student hears about a Phoenician sunken ship containing a treasure; coincidentally, he had found a jug while diving at the same spot where that ship supposedly sunk. He makes a deal with a cigarette smuggler to take him by boat to that place so that he can search for the treasure. He reencounters a girl he had met on his previous visit, and falls in love with her.

Awful adventure-cum-romance story which is only made watchable by the lovely landscapes of Corsica and Tangiers, its pretty (though here incompetent) leading actress, and one slightly amusing sequence in a classroom.

Rating: 21


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