Secret of Deep Harbor

Secret of Deep Harbor
Secret of Deep Harbor
	Original lobby card with Merry Anders and Ron Foster
Directed by	Edward L. Cahn
Written by	Owen Harris; Wells Root
Based on	novel by Max Miller
Produced by	Edward Small (executive); Robert E. Kent
Starring	Ron Foster; Merry Anders
Cinematography	Gilbert Warrenton
Edited by	Kenneth G. Crane
Music by	Richard LaSalle
Production; company	Harvard Film Corporation
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 25, 1961;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Secret of Deep Harbor is a 1961 film directed by Edward L. Cahn, and starring Ron Foster and Merry Anders.^[2]

It was a remake by producer Edward Small of his earlier I Cover the Waterfront (1932).^[3]

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 as Skip Hanlon
Barry Kelley as Milo Fowler
Merry Anders as Janey Fowler
Norman Alden as Barney Hanes
James Seay as Travis
Grant Richards as Rick Correll
Ralph Manza as Frank Miner
Billie Bird as Mama Miller
Elaine Walker as Rita
Max Mellinger as Doctor

References

^ EUGENE ARCHER (October 25, 1961). "CINEMA 16 PLANS PROGRAMMING SHIFT: Film Society to Concentrate on Foreign Moviemakers". New York Times. p. 34.
^ "Secret of Deep Harbor". BFI. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012.
^ Thompson, Howard. (October 26, 1961). "The Screen: Waterfront Melodrama at Local Theatres". New York Times. p. 39.