Three Secrets is a 1950 American drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal and Ruth Roman. It was released by Warner Bros.

Plot

A private plane crashes in the California mountains and a 5-year-old boy survives. Little else is known except the child is an orphan.

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Susan Chase believes the boy could be hers. Before she was wed to lawyer Bill Chase, she was involved with a Marine during the war, and became suicidal later, putting their child up for adoption. Bill has never been told Susan's secret.

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Newspaper reporter Phyllis Horn investigates the crash. She, too, has a secret, having given birth after a divorce from husband Bob Duffy, who has since remarried.

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A third woman, Ann Lawrence, turns up at the crash site as well. Ann was once a chorus girl, involved with wealthy Gordon Crossley, who spurned her after she became pregnant. Scorned, Ann bludgeoned him to death, and served five years in prison for manslaughter, giving up the baby. The boy appears to be hers, but she believes Susan is better qualified to give the child a good home.

Cast

Eleanor Parker as Susan Adele Connors Chase

Patricia Neal as Phyllis Horn

Ruth Roman as Ann Lawrence

Frank Lovejoy as Bob Duffy

Leif Erickson as Bill Chase

Ted de Corsia as Del Prince

Edmon Ryan as Hardin

Larry Keating as Mark Harrison

Katherine Warren as Mrs. Connors

Arthur Franz as Paul Radin

Frank Fenton as Sheriff Neil MacDonald

Kenneth Tobey as Officer

Frank Wilcox as Charlie

Jay Adler as City Editor

Billy Bevan as Ed Jackson

See also

List of American films of 1950

References

External links

1950 films

1950 drama films

American drama films

American aviation films

Films directed by Robert Wise

Films scored by David Buttolph

Films set in California

Warner Bros. films

American black-and-white films

1950s English-language films

1950s American films