Product: The Third Secret (1964)
Rating: 3.0
narrow scope, choppy acting, but worth 1 watch
This 1964 movie was worth one box of low-fat Cheese-nips. I figured I had it figured out, just by Jack Hawkins getting second-billing. Ok, they outsmarted me on that.I have three problems with this supposedly "intelligent" who-done-it.1) The viewer is presumed to CARE about these characters of whom we only get thin, almost cliche, snippets of their reportedly shocking lives, and way too many loose ends remain at the end.2) Too many scenes are shrill, and then we are supposed to just move on.3) Although I never did like the 40s-50s movies with guys whose "character" is established simply by "don't mess with me, I'm wearing a hat," many movies of the 60s replaced that with "I am more successful than you, because I wear a buttoned-up suit all movie long." The biggest shock of the movie was that Stephen Boyd wasn't in a suit in the hospital bed.Anyway, catch this one on TMC or borrow it from a friend.