The Third Secret (Original title)
Date: 1964 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirector: Charles Crichton
Synopsis: Psychological thriller: a psychoanalyst is found dead, apparently from suicide. One of his patients, much shaken, thinks he has probably been murdered and starts an inquiry among the psychoanalyst's other patients. Dr. Whitset, an eminent psychoanalyst, is found dying from a gunshot wound in his office. All the evidence points to suicide. Amongst his few, selected patients, Alex Stedman, a television celebrity, is profoundly distressed by his action. Stedman, who shuns any personal entanglements, is visited by Catherine, Whitset's fourteen year old daughter who begs him to clear her father's name and find his murderer. Stedman meets his fellow patients and cannot believe any of them guilty.He begins to doubt himself when Catherine reveals the name of the last patient?
Genre: Thriller
Releases
Date: 1964Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 103 mins Length: 9239 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1964 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirector: Charles Crichton
Synopsis: Psychological thriller: a psychoanalyst is found dead, apparently from suicide. One of his patients, much shaken, thinks he has probably been murdered and starts an inquiry among the psychoanalyst's other patients. Dr. Whitset, an eminent psychoanalyst, is found dying from a gunshot wound in his office. All the evidence points to suicide. Amongst his few, selected patients, Alex Stedman, a television celebrity, is profoundly distressed by his action. Stedman, who shuns any personal entanglements, is visited by Catherine, Whitset's fourteen year old daughter who begs him to clear her father's name and find his murderer. Stedman meets his fellow patients and cannot believe any of them guilty.He begins to doubt himself when Catherine reveals the name of the last patient?
Genre: Thriller
Releases
Date: 1964Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 103 mins Length: 9239 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(25)
Production Company: Hubris Productions, Producer: Robert L. Joseph, Associate Producer: Shirley Bernstein, Unit Manager: Davie Davison, Production Secretary: Josephine Knowles, Assistant to the Producer: Diana Hayward, Assistant Director: Peter Bolton, Continuity: Joan Davis, Written by: Robert L. Joseph, Director of Photography: Douglas Slocombe, Camera Operator: Chic Waterson, Editor: Frederick Wilson, Production Designer: Tom Morahan, Wardrobe: John McCorry, Make-up: Ken Mackay, Hairdresser: Iris Tilley, Music composed and conducted by: Richard Arnell, Recording Director: A.W. Lumkin, Sound Recording: Wally Milner, Sound Recording: Len Shilton, [Boom Operator]: Harry Fairbairn, Sound Editor: Charles Crafford, [Unit Publicist]: Catherine O'Brien, Studio: Elstree Studios
Cast
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Stephen Boyd (Alex Stedman), Jack Hawkins (Sir Frederick Belline), Richard Attenborough (Alfred Price Gorham), Diane Cilento (Anne Tanner), Pamela Franklin (Catherine Whitset), Paul Rogers (Dr. Milton Gillen), Alan Webb (Alden Hoving), Rachel Kempson (Mildred Hoving), Peter Sallis (Lawrence Jacks), Patience Collier (Mrs. Pelton), Freda Jackson (Mrs. Bales), Judi Dench (Miss Humphries), Peter Copley (Dr. Leo Whitset), Nigel Davenport (Lew Harding), Charles Lloyd Pack (Dermot McHenry), Barbara Hicks (police secretary), Ronald Leigh Hunt (police officer), Geoffrey Adams (floor manager), James Maxwell (Mark), Gerald Case (Mr. Bickes), Sarah Brackett (nurse), Neal Arden (Mr. Morgan)