In this mystery, a movie producer gets bored with his wife and begins an affair with a fiery actress. In the end, he jilts his mistress and returns to his wife. The trouble begins when someone stabs the actress and he is labelled the prime suspect by a detective. Later the producer discovers that the actress is still alive, and that the detective was her husband. A real murder follows and the producer is arrested. His loyal wife launches her own investigation and proves that her husband was innocent. The real killer, the husband of the actress, ends up killed in a car wreck. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Review by All Movie Guide
All Movie Guide
lost interest.
The Whole Truth demonstrates that it's a lot harder to make a really good mystery flick than it might seem. On the surface,
Truth has everything going for it. It has a nicely complex plot that throws in marital infidelity and revenge along with the expected murder. It has some far-off settings. It has
George Sanders, the screen's ultimate symbol of urbanely suave menace, who can also easily pull off heroics when called upon, as well as the dependable
Stewart Granger and the appealing
Donna Reed. It even has a lesser-known actress ($Gianna Maria Canale to add a bit of spicy intrigue. Unfortunately, these ingredients simply don't come together. The plot becomes convoluted and too often is simply incredible, and
Jonathan Latimer doesn't provide either enough memorable dialogue nor well-delineated characters to make up for this defect. The cast members are good, but the 3 "known" quantities are all operating at less than their top; Canaleactually comes off best, perhaps because the viewer is less acquainted with her and so doesn't expect as much. A really great directing job might have pulled everything together, but
John Guillermin's is routine rather than innovative.
Truth is not a terrible film; it's just not a very good one. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide