A year before "Three Secrets", rival studio Twentieth Century-Fox brought out "A Letter to Three Wives"...a truly great film. Warner Brothers created a film a year later with many similarities...too many in my opinion to be a complete coincidence.
The story begins with a plane crash on Thunder Mountain. Everyone aboard is assumed dead but after taking reconnaissance photos, they notice that the body of a boy had moved...and he must be alive. Soon a group of mountaineers are recruited to scale the mountain.
During this rescue mission, three women arrive at the lodge near the mountain. Why? Well, all three gave up a child for adoption five years before...and the child one of them gave up is that child on the mountain. But neither of the three know if it's their biological son...and in the meantime, through flashbacks you learn their stories and why they each decided to put the child up for adoption.
The structure, style and 'three' in the film are all reminiscent of the earlier movie. Both are also written and acted extremely well, though I think "A Letter to Three Wives" is a better film overall...though "Three Secrets" clearly IS a very good and very engaging story and when I watched it, it was near bedtime and I intended to only watch a little and head to sleep.... I at least INTENDED to do this. Instead, I watched it all...because it was just too good to see later.
The story begins with a plane crash on Thunder Mountain. Everyone aboard is assumed dead but after taking reconnaissance photos, they notice that the body of a boy had moved...and he must be alive. Soon a group of mountaineers are recruited to scale the mountain.
During this rescue mission, three women arrive at the lodge near the mountain. Why? Well, all three gave up a child for adoption five years before...and the child one of them gave up is that child on the mountain. But neither of the three know if it's their biological son...and in the meantime, through flashbacks you learn their stories and why they each decided to put the child up for adoption.
The structure, style and 'three' in the film are all reminiscent of the earlier movie. Both are also written and acted extremely well, though I think "A Letter to Three Wives" is a better film overall...though "Three Secrets" clearly IS a very good and very engaging story and when I watched it, it was near bedtime and I intended to only watch a little and head to sleep.... I at least INTENDED to do this. Instead, I watched it all...because it was just too good to see later.