The Third Secret
- 1964
- 1h 43m
The first secret is what we don't tell people, the second secret is what we don't tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth. The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenag... Read allThe first secret is what we don't tell people, the second secret is what we don't tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth. The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenage daughter and a former patient.The first secret is what we don't tell people, the second secret is what we don't tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth. The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenage daughter and a former patient.
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- (as Ronald Leigh Hunt)
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Did you know
- TriviaFilm debut of Dame Judi Dench (Miss Humphries).
- GoofsWhile on the beach, young Catherine is telling Alex that she knows the names of her father's patients. We hear her say she knows "four" names, but her lips show she is saying the word "five". Likely, "four" was dubbed over "five" upon the decision to remove Patricia Neal's character from the story.
- Quotes
[Stedman is sitting alone in a darkened television studio as Catherine Whitset enters and points to the broadcasting equipment]
Catherine Whitset: It's very complicated, isn't it?
Alex Stedman: It has to be.
Catherine Whitset: Why?
Alex Stedman: It saves people from having to think about what they're really doing. They have to concentrate on how to do it.
Catherine Whitset: That's therapy. It doesn't really help.
Alex Stedman: Therapy.
[pause]
Alex Stedman: Are you looking for anyone? I believe they've all gone home.
Catherine Whitset: You haven't.
Alex Stedman: How did you get in?
Catherine Whitset: I lied to the guard.
Alex Stedman: Why?
Catherine Whitset: I'm obsessive. I lie to guards.
Alex Stedman: That's not very serious.
Catherine Whitset: [Walking up to look through one of the video cameras] I love TV. Even when it's terrible.
[Walks over to Stedman]
Catherine Whitset: I think I'm going blind from watching TV. Do you see? Look closely.
[Pulls down her eyelid]
Catherine Whitset: See the deterioration? I'm a victim of the electronic age.
Alex Stedman: [Ruefully] Me too.
Boyd plays a television journalist, Alex Stedman, who also happens to be the patient of psychiatrist Leo Whitset. When Whitset is found dead, it's an apparent suicide, as he tells his housekeeper that he is responsible. Everyone assumes he means responsible for his own death though no one checks it out.
Whitset's teenage daughter (Franklin) appeals to Boyd, stating that her father could not have killed himself. The suicide is devastating to Boyd, and he is desperate to learn whether or not it's true, because otherwise, he can never believe anything his doctor told him. Suicide was a direct contradiction of his work.
Stedman is able to get a list of Whitset's patients and starts visiting them to discern which one of them could be the killer. He develops a relationship with a beautiful woman (Diane Cilento) who was also a patient of the doctor's.
There are plenty of suspects, but who could it be? Whitset's daughter tells Alex that her father said there are three secrets everyone has: the one you won't tell anyone, the one you won't tell yourself, and one other.
I thought the acting was very good all around, with Franklin's young voice a little too high-pitched for me -- I had the same problem listening to Deanna Durbin as a child - after awhile, it becomes annoying.
My problem with the story is that it dragged. At 90 minutes or so, it felt like three hours. It was interesting, it is by no means a bad film or badly directed, but it was hard for me to get into for some reason. Others found much more to like in it - mine is just one opinion.
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- Död mans hemlighet
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- Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, London, England, UK(Opening Credits)
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- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1