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A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe that anti-semites are behind the disappearance.

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Release : 1948
Rating : 6.4
Studio : Marathon Pictures,  Harry Brandt Productions, 
Crew : Director of Photography,  Director, 
Cast : John Ireland Jane Randolph Sheldon Leonard Roman Bohnen George Tyne
Genre : Thriller Crime Mystery

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Stometer
2018/08/30

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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SnoReptilePlenty
2018/08/30

Memorable, crazy movie

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Fatma Suarez
2018/08/30

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Scarlet
2018/08/30

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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boblipton
2018/04/15

The opening shot is an underlit traveling crane shot, followed by an upward-tilting Dutch angle of a series of backlit faces pronouncing "Guilty." It's an open secret this film was released in 1947, when every mystery was a film noir and every decent little guy faced a faceless conspiracy.Charles Waldron Jr. tells his landlady that his old friend, John Ireland and his new bride, Jane Randolph, will be staying with him a few days. Then he hides a roll of film in his drawer and goes out. Eventually his houseguests notice he's gone and call in police sergeant Sheldon Leonard and gradually get entangled in a web of....It's not the most subtly plotted of film noirs, and there's little mystery about what sort of nasty people are behind the evil doings, but it's certainly beautifully shot by horror-movie specialist George Robinson, and well performed by all hands. Director John Reinhardt was an Austrian actor who had switched to directing Spanish language movies for Fox in the early 1930s.

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mark.waltz
2015/04/03

The end of World War II didn't end the hatred towards Jews, even in a democratic country like the United States. As evidenced in "A" films such as "Gentleman's Agreement" and "Crossfire", anti-Semitism was still rampant in the world, even though Hitler's Germany was being criticized for the cruelty of the Holocaust. Unlike the posh settings of "Gentleman's Agreement", "Crossfire" took this hatred into the darkened side streets of big street U.S.A. and added a definite film noir element into the movie's powerful theme. "Open Secret" is even tougher looking, perhaps because of its less than glossy photography, and definitely because of its independently made status.John Ireland and Joyce Randolph are a newlywed couple who arrive at the apartment of an old friend who has promised them a bed to sleep in for the night until they can find a hotel. When they arrive, they find he has disappeared, but the mystery doesn't grow until Randolph goes to develop a roll of film she's found and put into her camera (already partially exposed!) and before they can even pick up the film, they find they are in danger. Shouts of anti-semitic slurs are heard prior to this, and the pictures seem to point to both Ireland's pal's disappearance and a violent crime which has yet to be exposed.While certainly gritty and filled with some great aspects of what makes film noir fascinating, there are minor flaws in the script which makes it only slightly disappointing. However, there are more details that enhance the film rather than weaken it, such as the nosy but ultimately caring landlady (who ironically resembles Margaret Hamilton) and the round table of bigots who pass a verdict of hate, not justice, then go out to commit their crimes against society. Whether or not these men were involved with the American Nazi party is never clarified, but it is obvious that if they had been over in Hitler's Germany, they certainly would have supported the evil that was going on. There's certainly an important element of why this story needed to be told the way it is and that makes it definitely worth watching.

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Dewey1960
2006/07/08

The late 1940s saw a brief spate of message movies dealing with anti-semitism, most notably the fantastic film noir thriller CROSSFIRE and the more famous but somewhat tepid GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (both 1947). OPEN SECRET, from 1948, shares more in common with CROSSFIRE given its noir trappings and thriller elements. John Ireland plays ex-GI Paul Lester who, along with his new wife Nancy (the very alluring Jane Randolph) arrive in town with the hopes of visiting Paul's old army buddy, Ed Stevens. When Ed turns up missing, Paul and Nancy are tossed into the middle of a dark mystery involving a neighborhood hate group whose targets are ethnic immigrant residents and business owners. Chief among them is Harry Strauss (George Tyne) a Jewish camera shop owner who figures prominently in the search for Ed who, it turns out, has been hunted down and killed by the hate-mongers because of incriminating photographs involving a previous killing that were in his possession. The direction (by John Reinhardt) of the film is considerably more lively than most ultra-low budget thrillers and the issues it brings up are actually on the level of those tackled in CROSSFIRE. Much of the dialog is quite intelligent and pungently written, dealing with delicate issues in a frank, straightforward way. Other notably interesting people in the cast are Roman Bohnen (the well-respected left-wing blacklisted actor) as an alcoholic wife-beater and member of the hate group, Sheldon Leonard (a veteran of tons of "B" noirs) as a sympathetic cop and, in a background bit part, King Donovan (from Don Siegel's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"). OPEN SECRET has recently been released in a budget-priced DVD and I strongly urge fans of this hybrid noir genre to check it out.

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Peter22060
2003/01/19

In the late forties, theatre owners such as Harry Brandt made some feature films such as OPEN SECRET. The cast has some well known character actors, and the plot line is very interesting. However, two films with Humphrey Bogart had more dynamic punch to them that carries the same message through to today. BLACK LEGION is the premiere film in exposing the hate and venom of individuals who misunderstand the basics of the "American Way". ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT brings the message of Nazis and anti-semitism in the United States to a slightly less strong level. OPEN SECRET would be considered an attempt to emulate the work shown in the two above films. Viewed today, it looks like a low budget "B" movie.

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