A Woman's Secret

Compared to what we are presented with today in the cinema, A Woman's Secret and many films of that era are quaint antedeluvian oddities, and it would be easy to poke fun at them. But we should remember that there are a great many films of the time, for whatever reason, have stood the test of time and then some, that tastes change and what might now seem ludicrous was just what movie-goers wanted at the time, and finally that far more versatile technology has allowed our modern directors to put on screen which Nick Ray in 1949 could only have dreamed off. Having said all that, A Woman's Secret was pretty tacky even according to its contemporary standards.

It is, at the end of the day, nothing more than a pretty mediocre potboiler. The story is daft, it can't make up its mind whether to be a noir or just a lighthearted drama, and the introduction of the police inspector's amateur sleuth wife is nothing short of bizarre. It didn't score for me at all.