The Family Secret (1951)

The Family Secret (1951)

„The Family Secret“ is a 1951 film-noir crime film directed by Henry Levin. The screenplay by Francis Cockrell and Andrew Solt is based on a story by Marie Baumer and James Cavanagh.

Lee J. Cobb is a defense attorney who stumbles upon the dilemma of a lifetime. The client he is representing is innocent, yet in order to prove this he must incriminate his own son, who accidentally killed his best friend.

Cast:

• John Derek – David Clark
• Lee J. Cobb – Howard Clark
• Jody Lawrance – Lee Pearson
• Erin O’Brien-Moore – Ellen Clark
• Santos Ortega – District Attorney George Redman
• Henry O’Neill – Donald Muir
• Carl Benton Reid – Dr. Steve Reynolds
• Peggy Converse – Sybil Bradley
• Jean Alexander – Vera Stone
• Dorothy Tree – Marie Elsner
• Whit Bissell – Joe Elsner
• Raymond Greenleaf – Henry Archer Sims
• Onslow Stevens – Judge Geoffrey N. Williams
• Chuck Hamilton – Arresting Detective
• Joseph Crehan – Bailiff
• Frances E. Williams – Bertha
• John Baer – Boy at Birthday Party
• Percy Helton – Charlie
• Jean Willes – Cigarette Girl
• Elizabeth Flournoy – Cora French, Clark’s Secretary
• Frank O’Connor – Courtroom Spectator
• Joe Ploski – Courtroom Spectator
• Paul Dubov – Deputy District Attorney
• Robert B. Williams – Detective
• Harry Cheshire – Dr. Black, Coroner
• Shirley Mills – File Girl
• George Spaulding – Inspector
• Fred F. Sears – Laboratory Analyst
• Bill Walker – Larry
• Harold Miller – Man in Clark’s Office
• Teddy Infuhr – Marvin
• Mary Alan Hokanson – Miss Martin, D.A.’s Secretary
• Marta Mitrovich – Miss Wellington
• Peter M. Thompson – Morton
• Helen Spring – Mrs. Redman
• Irene Martin – Party Girl
• Jack Roberts – Photographer
• Robert Malcolm – Police Guard
• Louis Merrill – Reporter
• Paul Marion – Reporter
• Amanda Blake – Telephone Girl
• Joy Windsor – Telephone Girl
• Lou Marcelle – Television Announcer
• Emmett Vogan – Vogan
• Al Eben – Waiter

„The Family Secret“ (dt.: Das Familiengeheimnis) ist ein Kriminaldrama aus dem Jahr 1951 unter der Regie von Henry Levin. Das Drehbuch von Francis Cockrell und Andrew Solt basiert auf einer Geschichte von Marie Baumer und James Cavanagh.

Lee J. Cobb ist ein Strafverteidiger, der in das Dilemma seines Lebens stolpert. Der Mandant, den er vertritt, ist unschuldig, doch um das zu beweisen, muss er seinen eigenen Sohn belasten, der versehentlich seinen besten Freund getötet hat.