Movie
The Secret Lie
1938 · 80 min
A heavy, melodramatic tearjerker that piles on family secrets and shame, watching it feels like a slow, sorrowful stage tragedy.
- Directed by
- Nunzio Malasomma
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Pola Negri, Hermann Braun, Herbert Hübner
- Overview
- The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”
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- Directed by
- Nunzio Malasomma
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Pola Negri, Hermann Braun, Herbert Hübner
