The Secret Partner
6.8 /10 1 Votes6.8
Country United Kingdom | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 15 March 1961 (Seattle, Washington) (U.S.) Writer David Pursall (original screenplay), Jack Seddon (original screenplay) Screenplay Jack Seddon, David Pursall Cast (John Brent), (Nicole Brent), (D.S. Frank Hanbury), (Charles Standish), (D.I. Tom Henderson), (Helen Standish) Similar movies The Asphalt Jungle , They Live by Night , The Prowler , Act of Violence , The Night of the Hunter , Maverick Tagline So Perfect a Crime...So Clever a Criminal! So Dangerous a Scheme! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Secret Partner is a 1961 British thriller film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet and Bernard Lee. The screenplay concerns a shipping executive officer who is blackmailed by an evil dentist.
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Premise
A wealthy London-based shipping executive officer is blackmailed by an evil dentist which threatens to reveal an old case of fraud, while the dentist himself is threaten by a mysterious masked man.
Cast
Production
Filming started 1 September 1960.
The film was Haya Harareet's first film since Ben Hur.
Critical reception
In Allmovie, Eleanor Mannikka called the film a "routine mystery story"; while in the Radio Times, Allen Eyles noted "an implausible but ingenious British thriller...flashily directed by Basil Dearden...It remains watchable thanks to some skilful characterisation and the strong performances of Stewart Granger as the executive, Norman Bird as the dentist, and Bernard Lee as the dogged, chain-smoking policeman looking forward to retirement."
References
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