The Girl on the Pier is a 1953 British second feature ('B')[1] crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Brian Roper, Campbell Singer and Anthony Valentine.

In the Chamber of Horrors section of Joe's Wax House, young Charlie Chubb hears part of the conversation.

Ronnie, Cathy, and Charlie visit the library and find newspaper cuttings connecting Nick to "Harper" in a robbery 4 years before.

Charles Victor and Marjorie Rhodes provide some inordinately heavy-handed comic relief and Veronica Hurst is uneasily miscast as the blonde floozie.

"[5] Kine Weekly said: "The plot is completely transparent but its artful 'seen through the eyes of a youngster' approach disarms criticism, and, at the same time, enables its main action, staged in a wax-works, to carry a few modest thrills.

"[6] In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan wrote: ''Drama is mostly sombre, slow.