Dark Secret (film)
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Directed byMaclean Rogers
Screenplay byMoie Charles
A.R. Rawlinson
A.R. Rawlinson
Based onplay The Crime at Blossoms by Mordaunt Shairp
Produced byErnest G. Roy
| Dark Secret | |
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.jpg) Australian theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Maclean Rogers |
| Screenplay by | Moie Charles A.R. Rawlinson |
| Based on | play The Crime at Blossoms by Mordaunt Shairp |
| Produced by | Ernest G. Roy |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
| Edited by | Ted Richards |
| Music by | George Melachrino |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Butcher's Film Service |
Release date |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Dark Secret is a 1949 British second feature ('B')[1] crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Dinah Sheridan, Emrys Jones and Irene Handl.[2] The screenplay was Moie Charles and A.R. Rawlinson. It was a remake of the 1933 film The Crime at Blossoms, also directed by Rogers.[3]
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 before them.
Cast
- Dinah Sheridan as Valerie Merryman
- Emrys Jones as Chris Merryman
- Irene Handl as 'Woody' Woodman
- Hugh Pryse as a very late visitor
- Barbara Couper as Mrs. Barrington
- Percy Marmont as vicar
- Geoffrey Sumner as Jack Farrell
- Mackenzie Ward as artist
- Charles Hawtrey as Arthur Figson
- John Salew as Mr. Barrington
- George Merritt as Mr. Lumley
- Stanley Vilven as Mr. Woodman
- Grace Arnold as housewife
- Esme Beringer as elderly lady
- Edgar Driver as George, barman
- Molly Hamley-Clifford as fat woman
- Laurence Naismith as Mr. Grossmith
- Terry Randall as daughter
- Johnnie Schofield as motor coachman