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The Secret Fury
The Secret Fury is a 1950 American noirish psychological thriller starring Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan. Directed by Mel Ferrer for RKO Radio Pictures, it also featured a rare screen appearance of Broadway legend Jane Cowl, with Paul Kelly also in support.
Wealthy touring classical pianist Ellen Ewing is standing at the altar with fiancé David McLean when an intruder stops the marriage ceremony and accuses her of already having wed a few months prior. The stranger claims that this can be verified by the registrar at the small seaside village of Fairview (where Ellen's family has a home, and she indeed had spent time overlapping the date of the alleged nuptial). A call is placed by the Ewing family's longtime lawyer, Gregory Kent, accompanied by the district attorney, Eric Lowell, a recent former suitor still smarting sharply from his jilting. A record of the vows is found.
Not only are the wedding guests and groom shocked, so is Ellen. The couple temporarily calls off the wedding and tries to investigate what's going on. With the help of Kent and Lowell, the couple tracks down and questions the justice of the peace that had signed her wedding papers. He instantly recognizes her as the woman he’s married, as does his wife and their housekeeper, who thanks Ellen for the white roses she’d sent her in gratitude for a kindness.
Soon after, they encounter a hotel maid who also claims to recognize Ellen from having attended to her and her husband back on their wedding day. She even sports a pin that she claims Ellen had gifted her, and which had once belonged to Ellen's mother. Kent and Lowell leave, convinced that Ellen is losing her mind.
Frustrated, David and Ellen next visit the man to whom Ellen is accused of having married, Lucian Randall. He leads her into a back room, taunts her, then becomes threatening. A gunshot is heard and a small "pocketbook" automatic falls to the floor. So does Randall. Ellen is accused of murder on the spot. She is held for trial and tormented by her former suitor, who’s not only prosecuting the case himself to avoid the charge of impropriety should he allow a subordinate to do it, but clearly being vengeful towards Ellen for her spurning.
Eventually, confounded both by all the things she knows—or believes—did not happen, with no one believing her, and hectored ceaselessly, Ellen suffers a breakdown on the witness stand. Kent changes her plea from not guilty to insanity, and she is committed to an asylum. Once there she retreats into uncommunicativeness and persists in a walking coma.
Through it all David remains supportive and convinced of Ellen's innocence. David embarks on an errand to the Ewing retreat in Fairfield that all involved hope will help snap her out of her withdrawn state. There, by accident, he finds a seashell among Ellen's things that she had described to David as evidence that could help substantiate her story of her whereabouts and doings on the date of the alleged wedding ceremony. Inspired by this, he attempts to track down another clue, and is successful in locating a dory with a unique name Ellen had said she’d seen beach-combing that day.
David next goes to the home of the justice of the peace, but it’s empty; a passing postman tells him nobody by that name has ever lived there. Armed with these three big breaks David calls Kent and tells him the good news, then says he’s staying in Fairfield to dig some more. He locates the maid, but she stonewalls him. Offering her "big money" for revealing who had put her up to the hoax, David arranges to meet her back at her apartment later that evening.
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The Secret Fury
The Secret Fury is a 1950 American noirish psychological thriller starring Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan. Directed by Mel Ferrer for RKO Radio Pictures, it also featured a rare screen appearance of Broadway legend Jane Cowl, with Paul Kelly also in support.
Wealthy touring classical pianist Ellen Ewing is standing at the altar with fiancé David McLean when an intruder stops the marriage ceremony and accuses her of already having wed a few months prior. The stranger claims that this can be verified by the registrar at the small seaside village of Fairview (where Ellen's family has a home, and she indeed had spent time overlapping the date of the alleged nuptial). A call is placed by the Ewing family's longtime lawyer, Gregory Kent, accompanied by the district attorney, Eric Lowell, a recent former suitor still smarting sharply from his jilting. A record of the vows is found.
Not only are the wedding guests and groom shocked, so is Ellen. The couple temporarily calls off the wedding and tries to investigate what's going on. With the help of Kent and Lowell, the couple tracks down and questions the justice of the peace that had signed her wedding papers. He instantly recognizes her as the woman he’s married, as does his wife and their housekeeper, who thanks Ellen for the white roses she’d sent her in gratitude for a kindness.
Soon after, they encounter a hotel maid who also claims to recognize Ellen from having attended to her and her husband back on their wedding day. She even sports a pin that she claims Ellen had gifted her, and which had once belonged to Ellen's mother. Kent and Lowell leave, convinced that Ellen is losing her mind.
Frustrated, David and Ellen next visit the man to whom Ellen is accused of having married, Lucian Randall. He leads her into a back room, taunts her, then becomes threatening. A gunshot is heard and a small "pocketbook" automatic falls to the floor. So does Randall. Ellen is accused of murder on the spot. She is held for trial and tormented by her former suitor, who’s not only prosecuting the case himself to avoid the charge of impropriety should he allow a subordinate to do it, but clearly being vengeful towards Ellen for her spurning.
Eventually, confounded both by all the things she knows—or believes—did not happen, with no one believing her, and hectored ceaselessly, Ellen suffers a breakdown on the witness stand. Kent changes her plea from not guilty to insanity, and she is committed to an asylum. Once there she retreats into uncommunicativeness and persists in a walking coma.
Through it all David remains supportive and convinced of Ellen's innocence. David embarks on an errand to the Ewing retreat in Fairfield that all involved hope will help snap her out of her withdrawn state. There, by accident, he finds a seashell among Ellen's things that she had described to David as evidence that could help substantiate her story of her whereabouts and doings on the date of the alleged wedding ceremony. Inspired by this, he attempts to track down another clue, and is successful in locating a dory with a unique name Ellen had said she’d seen beach-combing that day.
David next goes to the home of the justice of the peace, but it’s empty; a passing postman tells him nobody by that name has ever lived there. Armed with these three big breaks David calls Kent and tells him the good news, then says he’s staying in Fairfield to dig some more. He locates the maid, but she stonewalls him. Offering her "big money" for revealing who had put her up to the hoax, David arranges to meet her back at her apartment later that evening.