she pursued her favourite subject – the female experience – in a number of films, including "street corner" (1953) about women police officers, somerset maugham's "the beachcomber" (1954), with donald sinden and glynis johns as a resourceful missionary, again working with donald sinden on "eyewitness" (1956) and a series of comedies about the battle of the sexes, including "the passionate stranger" (1957), "the truth about women" (1958) and her final film, "rattle of a simple man" (1964).