Marilyn (U.S. title: Roadhouse Girl) is a 1953 British second feature ('B')[1] film noir directed by Wolf Rilla starring Sandra Dorne and Maxwell Reed.

[2] Drifter mechanic Tom Price lusts after seductive Marilyn, the young wife of ill-tempered garage owner George Saunders.

Everton later changes his mind as he feels they won't be happy in the longer term; and Price also walks out, frustrated by her erratic behaviour and in particular her lack of lasting commitment to him.

It's a solid enough study in lust, despair and avarice, with Sandra Dorne oozing cynical sensuality as the unhappy wite whose liaison with mechanic Maxwell Reed leads to the death of her grouchy, garage-owning husband Leslie Dwyer.

The authors note that it is "symptomatic of a transatlantic turn in the British 'B'" and praise its depiction of a "pervasive sense of dissatisfaction with things as they are".