The Great Ealing Film Challenge 64: Secret People (1952)
Dr Keith M. Johnston
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Posted 28.06.2012
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UK Entertainment
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I really wanted to like Secret People more than I did. Made within a year of The Gentle Gunman (1952), another Ealing project around terrorism (although about the IRA rather than the unidentified and Europe-wide 'Organisation' at the heart of this film), Secret People is obviously trying to do something different with its story, but I'm uncertain it succeeds or is as morally ambiguous as it claims to be.
