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Top Secret Affair

Top Secret Affair

1957Movie⏱️ 1h 40mApproved
Comedy
6.2
IMDB Rating
667 votes

Unhappy about the appointment of an army general to the chairmanship of an atomic energy committee, a publishing empire female tycoon invites the general to her country estate in an effort to entrap him and ruin his reputation.

Director
H.C. Potter
Writers
John P. Marquand, Roland Kibbee, Allan Scott
Stars
Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas, Paul Stewart
Release Date
January 30, 1957
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 18
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
as Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin
Paul Stewart
Paul Stewart
as Phil Bentley
Jim Backus
Jim Backus
as Col. Homer W. Gooch
John Cromwell
John Cromwell
as General Daniel A. Grimshaw
Roland Winters
Roland Winters
as Sen. Burdick
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Arthur Gould-Porter
as Holmes - Dottie's Butler
Michael Fox
Michael Fox
as Reporter Laszlo 'Lotzie' Kovach
Frank Gerstle
Frank Gerstle
as Sgt. Kruger
Charles Lane
Charles Lane
as Bill Hadley

🎬 Technical Specs

Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Production
Carrollton Inc.

🏷️ Keywords

generalpublishertape recorderatomic testingsecret

🎯 Categories

Comedy

⭐ Featured Review

Susan Hayward Returned to WB as a Major Star
by atkinsnedryart2020-11-19
9/10

"Susan Hayward was a contract player at Warners and di a fww brief shots in WB films. Beautiful Susie left WB and went to Paramount where she got some plum roles such as Gary Cooper's Beau Geste, Frederic March I Married A Witch and Loretta Young in And Now Tomorrow This film was set to be aBogey-Bacall film but the great Bogie developed cancer and both Bogie and Mrs Bogart aka Lauren Bacall droped out and Jack Warner asked Susan Hayward to return to WB where Susie was given a star Bungalow on the WB lot and her fave cinematographer Stanley Cortez (Cortez did the great train shot with Jen..."

💡 Did You Know?

Under the title "Melville Goodwin, USA", the film was to star Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall - both of whom had already filmed costume and makeup tests in 1956 - but Bogart's terminal illness forced his withdrawal from the project. He was replaced by Kirk Douglas. Bacall withdrew shortly afterward, opting instead to remain at home with her husband until his death in 1957, and was replaced by Susan Hayward.

📖 Synopsis

Unhappy about the appointment of an army general to the chairmanship of an atomic energy committee, a publishing empire female tycoon invites the general to her country estate in an effort to entrap him and ruin his reputation.