Secret World (film)

Secret World
Jacqueline Bisset in Secret World
Directed by	Robert Freeman
Screenplay by	Gérard Brach Jacky Glass
Produced by	Jacques-Eric Strauss
Starring	Jacqueline Bisset
Cinematography	Peter Biziou (photography)
Edited by	Richard Bryan Elyane Vuillermoz
Music by	Antoine Duhamel
Color process	Color by DeLuxe
Production companies	Les Films du Siècle Les Productions Fox Europa
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	10 July 1969 (1969-07-10)(France)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Secret World is a 1969 French drama film starring Jacqueline Bisset. It was directed by Robert Freeman.

It was originally known as La Promesse'. ^[1]

Plot

François, withdrawn and fearful of riding in cars as a result of an automobile crash that left him an orphan, lives with his middle-aged aunt and uncle, Florence and Philippe, in a chateau in Provence.

Cast

• Jacqueline Bisset as Wendy
• Jean-François Vlerick as François (as Jean-François Maurin)
• Gisèle Pascal as Florence
• Pierre Zimmer as Philip / François' uncle
• Marc Porel as Olivier / Philippe's son
• Paul Bonifas as Gustave / servant
• Chantal Goya as Monique
• Guy d'Avout as Malerar

Box office

According to Fox records the film required $2,300,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made $900,000, so made a loss to the studio. ^[2]

See also

• List of French films of 1969

References

1. The film scene The Christian Science Monitor 25 Aug 1969: 4.
2. Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 328.

External links

• Secret World at IMDb
• Secret World at the TCM Movie Database
• Review of film at New York Times
• Review of film at Cinema Retro