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Secret Evidence (1941)

1941 · Feature film · 60 min · dir. William Nigh

She offered herself as a Sacrifice... To Save The Ones She Loved!

  • Crime
  • Drama
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Synopsis

A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfriend, a jewel thief just released on parole who has no intention of going straight. The visit triggers a series of events resulting in a trial for attempted murder.

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Details

Director
William Nigh
Writer
Brenda Cline
Cinematography
Arthur Martinelli
Studio
PRC
Released
1941-01-31
Running time
60 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Hard to Believe Story Well Played Out · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-11

Once you get past the unlikely circumstances that set up the conflicts in this drama, it is an uneven, but taut little drama. The uneven part is with the acting: some very good, most stiff or over-acted. The film is carried by a fine performance by Malcolm "Bud" McTaggarrt, who projects menace and gives an edgy performance, reminiscent of Neville Brand, as an ex-con, who was once fiance to Marjorie Reynolds. Reynolds gives a decent performance as the girl who is caught between her engagement to Charles Quigley, an Assistant D.A. and the sudden appearance of the bullying, can't-let-go…

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