| Top Secret Affair | |
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 Original Spanish film poster |
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| Directed by | H.C. Potter |
| Produced by | Martin Rackin Milton Sperling |
| Written by | John P. Marquand
(novel) Roland Kibbee Allan Scott |
| Starring | Susan Hayward Kirk Douglas |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | Stanley Cortez |
| Editing by | Folmar Blangsted |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) |  30
January 1957 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
Top Secret Affair is a 1957 romantic comedy film made by Carrollton Inc. and distributed by Warner Bros.. It was directed by H.C. Potter and produced by Martin Rackin and Milton Sperling from a screenplay by Roland Kibbee and Allan Scott.
The plot is very loosely adapted from the 1951 novel Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. by John P. Marquand, which had previously been adapted in 1952 for television's "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse." The film's credits state that it is "based on characters" in the book (rather than on the book itself). Like the novel, the movie features a romance between a general named Melville Goodwin and a wealthy journalist named Dorothy "Dottie" Peale. But the story lines are drastically different, both in the details of the affair and in the personalities of the two people. A few other characters' names from the book are used in the movie, but with no particular fidelity to the originals.
The music score of the film was by Roy Webb, the cinematography by Stanley Cortez and costume design by Charles LeMaire.
The film stars Susan Hayward and Kirk Douglas, with Paul Stewart and Jim Backus. The original stars were to be Humphrey Bogart and wife Lauren Bacall, and the couple were filmed doing a wardrobe test for the picture in 1956. But Bogart's illness forced his withdrawal from the project, and Bacall opted to remain at home to care for him until his death in 1957.
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