Open Secret
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Open Secret |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 69 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Reinhardt |
| script | Henry Blankfort |
| production | Harry Brandt |
| music | Herschel Burke Gilbert |
| camera | George Robinson |
| cut | Stanley Frazen |
| occupation | |
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Open Secret is a 1948 American film directed by John Reinhardt, starring John Ireland and Jane Randolph . In the film noir , the director, who originally came from Austria, takes up anti-Semitism in post-war society in the USA .
action
Newlyweds Paul and Nancy Lester come to an unnamed city to visit Paul's former army comrade Ed. When Ed suddenly disappears, the Lesters start looking around. After the police are not interested in the case and Ed is run over by a truck and linked to a previous murder case, the Lesters suspect a conspiracy. They eventually find out that the city is being terrorized by a ring of anti-Semites that Ed got involved with.
reception
On the UCLA Festival of Preservation 2017 was Open Secret of a the UCLA Film & Television Archive from 35mm - nitrate - Dup Negative demonstrated restored copy. The film curator Miki Shannon notes that the "open secret" in Open Secret, in contrast to other films such as the Taboo of the Righteous or Im Kreuzfeuer, made a year earlier, is never explained in detail, with the exception of a shot in which you are smeared on a shop door Recognize the lettering "Jew". “Although he had already left Europe in the 1920s to work in the film factories of Hollywood and Mexico, it is not surprising that the Austrian-born director John Reinhardt took up the topic of anti-Semitism as did other directors who emigrated before the Nazis who followed the ' Anschluss ' arrived in America. "
Web links
- Open Secret in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ OPEN SECRET (1948). In: The Night Editor (blog by Jake Hinkson). September 26, 2017, accessed November 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Program announcement for the restored 35 mm version: Open Secret. In: UCLA Film & Television Archive. March 10, 2017, accessed April 3, 2019 .