The Secret Tent
1956 British film by Don Chaffey
- February 1956 (1956-02)
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The Secret Tent is a 1956 crime film directed by Don Chaffey.[1][2] It stars Donald Gray and Andrée Melly and was made at Shepperton Studios.[3][4]
Plot
Respectable wife Ruth attempts to conceal her secret past as a criminal from neighbours and from her husband Chris. However, when a neighbour is burgled and Ruth mysteriously disappears, she becomes the police's prime suspect. Husband Chris searches the city for Ruth, in hopes of proving her innocence.
Cast
- Donald Gray as Chris Martyn
- Andrée Melly as Ruth Martyn
- Jean Anderson as Mrs. Martyn
- Sonia Dresdel as Miss Mitchum-Browne
- Andrew Cruickshank as Inspector Thornton
- Dinah Ann Rogers as Sally
- Peter Hammond as Smith
- Conrad Phillips as Sergeant
- Gareth Tandy as Philip
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "With a far-fetched and tasteless story, strenuously but inexpertly played out, this emotional melodrama has little to recommend it."[5]
Sky Movies wrote, "talented director Don Chaffey, who later made The Man Upstairs, Jason and the Argonauts and A Jolly Bad Fellow treats novelettish material with some flair in this story of a former 'bad girl' whose past threatens her present happiness."[6]
References
- ^ "The Secret Tent". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "The Secret Tent (1956)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
- ^ "Movie search results for "the secret tent" - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "The Secret Tent - Pinewood filming location". pinewoodgroup.com.
- ^ "The Secret Tent". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 23 (264): 34. 1 January 1956 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Secret Tent". Find and Watch.
External links
- The Secret Tent at IMDb
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Films directed by Don Chaffey
- Strange Stories (1953)
- Skid Kids (1953)
- Time Is My Enemy (1954)
- The Secret Tent (1956)
- The Girl in the Picture (1957)
- The Flesh Is Weak (1957)
- A Question of Adultery (1958)
- The Man Upstairs (1958)
- Danger Within (1959)
- Dentist in the Chair (1960)
- Lies My Father Told Me (1960)
- Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961)
- A Matter of WHO (1961)
- Greyfriars Bobby (1961)
- The Webster Boy (1962)
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
- A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
- The Crooked Road (1965)
- One Million Years B.C. (1966)
- The Viking Queen (1967)
- A Twist of Sand (1968)
- Clinic Exclusive (1971)
- Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
- Charley One-Eye (1973)
- Persecution (1974)
- Ride a Wild Pony (1975)
- The Fourth Wish (1976)
- Pete's Dragon (1977)
- The Magic of Lassie (1978)
- C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)
- Casino (1980) (TV)
- International Airport (1985) (TV)
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