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The Third Secret (1964)

The Third Secret poster
Directed by
Charles Crichton
Genre
drama film, crime film, mystery film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 30 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American newscaster looks into why his psychoanalyst died. He uncovers secrets the doctor's patients and colleagues are hiding.

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What happens

The Third Secret is a 1964 British CinemaScope neo-noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Charles Crichton, and starring Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin, Paul Rogers, Alan Webb and Judi Dench (in her film debut). The screenplay by Robert L. Joseph focuses on an American newscaster who investigates the mysterious death of his psychoanalyst. According to the film, there are three kinds of secrets; the first, you keep from others; the second, you keep from yourself, and the third is the truth. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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