The Third Secret (1964) on Netflix
A London psychoanalyst dies of a gunshot wound, and a coroner calls it suicide. His daughter Catherine does not accept that and asks Alex Stedman, one of her father's patients, to investigate.
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Dr. Leo Whitset, a London psychoanalyst, is found at home with a gunshot wound and dies. A coroner rules the death a suicide. Alex Stedman, an American news commentator on British television who has been the doctor's patient since his wife and daughter died, doubts that verdict. The doctor's fourteen-year-old daughter Catherine is sure her father was murdered, and she asks Alex to help find whoever did it so that her father's name stays clean.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Third Secret (1964)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Charles Crichton said he "really made" The Third Secret "because I needed a job", though he called it "quite an interesting picture". He said that after filming, when the Zanucks took over Fox, Zanuck cut out most of the film's "mad bits", which didn't help.
- Patricia Neal was cast as one of the psychoanalyst's patients in The Third Secret, but all of her scenes were cut from the film before it was released.
