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The Secret Tent is a 1956 crime film directed by Don Chaffey.[1] It stars Donald Gray and Andrée Melly and was made at Shepperton Studios.[2][3]

The Secret Tent
Directed by	Don Chaffey
Written by	Jan Read
Based on	the play The Secret Tent by Elizabeth Addyman
Starring	Donald Gray
Cinematography	Harry Waxman
Release date	February 1956
Running time	69 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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
• Andrée 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."[4]

References

External links

• The Secret Tent at IMDb

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