Dark Secret (film)

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Dark Secret
Directed by Maclean Rogers
Screenplay byMoie Charles
A.R. Rawlinson
Based onplay The Crime at Blossoms by Mordaunt Shairp
Produced by Ernest G. Roy
Starring
Cinematography Walter J. Harvey
Edited byTed Richards
Music by George Melachrino
Production
company
Distributed by Butcher's Film Service
Release date
  • October 1949 (1949-10)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

Dark Secret is a 1949 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Dinah Sheridan, Emrys Jones and Irene Handl. [1] It was a remake of the 1933 film The Crime at Blossoms , also directed by Rogers. [2]

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Plot

Ex-pilot Chris and his wife Valerie move into an attractive country cottage, only to become obsessed with the murdered woman who used to live there.

Cast

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References

  1. Chibnall & McFarlane p.65
  2. Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   9783110951943 via Google Books.

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