Secret of Deep Harbor

{{Short description|1961 film by Edward L. Cahn}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Secret of Deep Harbor

| image = "Secret_of_Deep_Harbor"_(1961).jpg | caption = Original lobby card with [[Merry Anders]] and [[Ron Foster (actor)|Ron Foster]] | director = [[Edward L. Cahn]] | producer = [[Edward Small]] (executive)<br>[[Robert E. Kent]] | writer = Owen Harris<br>Wells Root | based_on = novel by Max Miller | starring = [[Ron Foster (actor)|Ron Foster]]<br>[[Merry Anders]] | music = [[Richard LaSalle]] | cinematography = [[Gilbert Warrenton]] | editing = Kenneth G. Crane | distributor = [[United Artists]] | studio = Harvard Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1961|10|25|ref1=<ref>{{Cite news|title=CINEMA 16 PLANS PROGRAMMING SHIFT: Film Society to Concentrate on Foreign Moviemakers|author=EUGENE ARCHER|date=October 25, 1961|work=New York Times|page=34}}</ref>}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''The Secret of Deep Harbor''''' is a 1961 film directed by [[Edward L. Cahn]], and starring [[Ron Foster (actor)|Ron Foster]] and [[Merry Anders]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b768aea73|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712040643/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b768aea73|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-12|title=Secret of Deep Harbor|work=BFI}}</ref>

It was a remake by producer [[Edward Small]] of his earlier ''[[I Cover the Waterfront]]'' (1932).<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Screen: Waterfront Melodrama at Local Theatres|author=Thompson, Howard.|date=October 26, 1961|work=New York Times|page=39}}</ref>

==Plot== Reporter Skip Hanlon (Ron Foster) is stuck in Deep Harbor, a bit frustrated about nothing happening there and stalled in his "career". He meets Janey Fowler (Merry Anders), whose father Milo (Barry Kelley) is the captain of a charter boat. The "syndicate" pays the captain to transport gangsters out of the U.S.. Then the mobster on Milo´s boat coldbloodedly kills one of his escape-passengers because he tricked the syndicate. The body is then thrown over board with an anchor chained around the legs. Hanlon´s best friend Barney (Norman Alden) has a salvage service and finds the anchor tied to the dead man, Frank Miner. Whereas Skip and Janey develop a relation she identifies the anchor as being Milo´s and thus Skip gets his scoop that brings him national attention and the contempt of Janey who feels betrayed. Milo can escape the arrest by the police and asks Janey to help him to flee to Mexico. Wounded by a shot he hides in a warehouse when Skip sees him. Milo shoots at him in a father/son-in-law-to-be-encounter but then dies after fainting Skip asked Janey to marry him.

==Cast== *[[Ron Foster (actor)|Ron Foster]] as Skip Hanlon *[[Barry Kelley]] as Milo Fowler *[[Merry Anders]] as Janey Fowler *[[Norman Alden]] as Barney Hanes *[[James Seay]] as Travis *[[Grant Richards (actor)|Grant Richards]] as Rick Correll *[[Ralph Manza]] as Frank Miner *[[Billie Bird]] as Mama Miller *Elaine Walker as Rita *Max Mellinger as Doctor

==See also== * [[List of American films of 1961]]

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0055424}} *{{TCMDb title|17305}}

[[Category:1961 films]] [[Category:1961 English-language films]] [[Category:American black-and-white films]] [[Category:1961 drama films]] [[Category:Films directed by Edward L. Cahn]] [[Category:American drama films]] [[Category:Films produced by Edward Small]] [[Category:Films scored by Richard LaSalle]] [[Category:United Artists films]] [[Category:1961 American films]] [[Category:English-language drama films]]