Dangerous Secrets

Linden Travers has a brief, passionate affair with Hugh Williams; then he tells her he's off to India. She goes back to school under Paul Lukas, then marries him. She is tiring of the domestic routine, when up pops Lukas' old friend, Hugh Williams.

The copy looked at turned out to be missing the last nine minutes -- do you hear my teeth grinding? -- but it's another of those tearjerkers which tries to make the situation the fault of no one; it's (sigh) human nature. The performances are fine; Miss Travers, whose best known role is in Hitchcock's THE LADY VANISHES, relies mostly on her serene beauty, but she's very good in a scene where she becomes incoherently angry. Lukas is playing his understanding older gentleman role, his typical casting in English-language film. It's not my meat, but seems to be ably handled.