The Argyle Secrets
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Directed byCy Endfield
Screenplay byCy Endfield
Based onThe Argyle Album
1945 radio play
by Cyril Endfield
Produced bySam X. Abarbanel
Alan H. Posner
StarringWilliam Gargan
Marjorie Lord
CinematographyMack Stengler
Edited byGregg G. Tallas
Music byRaoul Kraushaar (as Ralph Stanley)
Production
company
Eronel Productions
Distributed byFilm Classics (US)
Release date
  • May 7, 1948 (1948-05-07)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$125,000[1]

The Argyle Secrets is a 1948 American film noir mystery thriller written and directed by Cy Endfield and starring William Gargan and Marjorie Lord.[2] It was based on a half-hour radio play by Endfield, originally heard on CBS's Suspense.[3][4] The film was made for the micro-budget of $100,000 and shot in eight days.[5]

Plot

Reporter Harry Mitchell tracks down incriminating papers showing that some leading Americans collaborated with the Nazis during the war.[6]

Cast

Critical reception

TV Guide called the film an "often exciting low-budget thriller."[6] Variety called the film "a particularly interesting B movie in its suggestion that the U.S. government secretly brought Nazis into the country to work for the military."[4]

Shown on the Turner Classic Movies show 'Noir Alley' with Eddie Muller on October 15, 2022.

Preservation

The Argyle Secrets was preserved and restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust (the HFPA Trust). Restored from a 35mm nitrate composite dupe negative. The restoration premiered at the UCLA Festival of Preservation in 2022.

References

  1. ^ THOMAS F. BRADY (Feb 29, 1948). "HOLLYWOOD CALM: New Legislative Probes Taken in Stride -- Better Terms for the Independents". New York Times. p. X5.
  2. ^ The Argyle Secrets at the TCM Movie Database
  3. ^ "The Argyle Secrets (1948) – Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  4. ^ a b "Cy Endfield". Variety. 1995-05-01. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
  5. ^ Andrew Spicer; Helen Hanson (2013-06-24). A Companion to Film Noir. ISBN 9781118523759. Retrieved 2014-05-25 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ a b "The Argyle Secrets Trailer, Reviews and Schedule". tvguide.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.

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Films directed by Cy Endfield
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