The Argyle Secrets (1948)

Directed by

Cy Endfield

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 04m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man searches for a missing diary that contains explosive political secrets. Several people will do anything to get their hands on it.

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What happens

The Argyle Secrets is a 1948 American film noir mystery thriller written and directed by Cy Endfield (billed as "Cyril Endfield) and starring William Gargan and Marjorie Lord. It was based on a half-hour radio play by Endfield, originally heard on CBS's Suspense. The film was made for a micro-budget of $100,000 and shot in eight days. Endfield admirer Jonathan Rosenbaum called it the first Endfield film "that he would later recall with any pride or affection... a surprisingly beautiful Z-budget thriller hastily adapted from his first radio script and shot in six days." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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