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Director
  
Clive Donner

Music director
  
Clifton Parker

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama

Cinematography
  
Ernest Steward

Writer
  
Lynette Perry

Language
  
English

The Secret Place (film) movie poster

Release date
  
27 May 1957

Cast
  
Belinda Lee
(Molly Wilson),
Ronald Lewis
(Gerry Carter),
Michael Brooke
(Freddie Haywood),
David McCallum
(Mike Wilson)

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The Secret Place is a 1957 British crime film, and the directorial debut of Clive Donner. It stars Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis, and a young David McCallum in a supporting role.

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Plot

Crime heist melodrama set in the bombed out East End of London. A diamond robbery is masterminded by small-time crooks, and an adolescent boy finds himself unwittingly caught up in events, after discovering they've hidden the loot in his home.

In East London, young Freddie Hatwood has a crush on kiosk attendant Molly Wilson, who is engaged to Gerry Garter. Gerry is part of a criminal gang who had a hide out at car dealership; Molly's brother Mike works there.

Gerry, Mike and their friend Steve are planning a diamond robbery. They need a policeman's uniform. Molly asks Freddie to borrow the uniform of his policeman father.

The robber goes ahead. Gerry hides the diamonds inside Molly's record player. Not knowing this, Molly gives the player to Freddie as a thank you gift. Freddie discovers the diamonds and the gang go after him.

Cast

  • Belinda Lee as Molly Wilson
  • Ronald Lewis as Gerry Carter
  • Michael Brooke as Freddie Haywood
  • Michael Gwynn as Steve Warring
  • Geoffrey Keen as Mr. Haywood
  • David McCallum as Mike Wilson
  • Maureen Pryor as Mrs. Haywood
  • George Selway as Paddy
  • George A. Cooper as Harry
  • Production

    Filming took place at Pinewood Studios in November 1956. It was Donner's first feature as director.

    Reception

    The British Film Institute praised the "the remarkable debut screenplay by Linette Perry, which manages to intertwine the generic conventions of the heist thriller with a simple, but poetic, moral drama. In Perry's world the secret places stretch beyond the physical - the record player, gang hideouts and derelict buildings - into the hearts of the young protagonists. Faced with opportunity and misguided by love, the characters are all confronted with their own buried selfishness."

    References

    The Secret Place (film) Wikipedia
    The Secret Place (film) IMDb The Secret Place (film) themoviedb.org