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The Secret Tent

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Cinematography
  
Harry Waxman

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Director
  
Don Chaffey

Genres
  
Drama, Crime Fiction

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Release date
  
February 1956

Based on
  
the play The Secret Tent by Elizabeth Addyman

Writer
  
Elizabeth Addeyman (play), Jan Read

Cast
  
Andree Melly
,
Donald Gray
,
Jean Anderson
,
Conrad Phillips
,
Sonia Dresdel

Similar movies
  
Related Don Chaffey movies

The Secret Tent is a 1956 crime film directed by Don Chaffey. It stars Donald Gray and Andrée Melly and was made at Shepperton Studios.

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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

    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."

    References

    The Secret Tent Wikipedia
    The Secret Tent IMDb