THE SECRET
(Eros) Y Cert. HOUGH The Secret had me with it almost all the way, I came away disappointed. The body of a woman is found below the sea wall at Brighton. Did she fall or was she pushed? At a house near by we meet her two young children (one of them is Mandy Miller), who don’t yet know she’s dead, and a shifty-looking American (Sam Wana-
maker), who makes a fuss of the children but seems to know more than he should about the dead woman. The police inspector (Andre Morell) suspects him, and so do we. Most people, I imagine, are pretty susceptible to the anguish of orphaned children, and there’s plenty to be susceptible about here. A good cast plays well, that curious, lonely feeling of a seaside town comes through, there’s suspense and even a chase through that familiar location, a fairground. The ending, though, is quite another matter. It shows-and a good thing, too-that circumstantial evidence isn’t proof. But its new light on an old character is unconvincing, and its happy tableau doesn’t have the colour of truth. It surprised me so much that I came away wondering if I had missed something somewhere. The director is C. Raker Endfield, who also wrote the script.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 17
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212THE SECRET New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 17
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