| The Secret Tent | |
| Director: | Don Chaffey |
| Based On: | the play The Secret Tent by Elizabeth Addyman |
| Starring: | Donald Gray |
| Cinematography: | Harry Waxman |
| Runtime: | 69 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
The Secret Tent is a 1956 crime film directed by Don Chaffey.[1] [2] It stars Donald Gray and Andrée Melly and was made at Shepperton Studios.[3] [4]
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.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "With a far-fetched and tasteless story, strenuously but inexpertly played out, this emotional melodrama has little to recommend it."[5]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Popular TV favourites star, but melodrama is just another 'B'."[6]
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."[7]