One for the Couch

The Third Secret. When a prominent London psychiatrist commits suicide, Stephen Boyd goes nearly berserk. After all, if your doctor tells you that life is worth living, then goes home and puts a bullet through his head, where are you? Hey, wait a minute. Suppose the psychiatrist was murdered--ever think of that? The doctor's teenage daughter (Pamela Franklin) has. So Boyd goes calling on the doctor's three other patients, looking for a "borderline schizophrenic" capable of murder. One of them (Richard Attenborough) is a timid artist, working out his frustrations on canvas. Another, blonde Secretary Diane Cilento, kills herself because she felt guilty about something, but she felt guilty about everything, so it proves nothing. The third, Jack Hawkins, is a famous jurist with a deep dark secret, which he manages to keep.

The dialogue runs mostly to portentous outcries: "Is there no pity left? Did the last of pity die with the doctor?" No, the last of pity accrues to the actors--with a special nod to Stephen Boyd, who probably never should become involved in any predicament that he can't get out of by swinging a broadsword from a speeding chariot.

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