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