"The Secret Bride" involves Stanwyck trying to keep her marriage to an assistant attorney general (Warren William) secret due to a troubling crime with her father. You see her father is Governor and a bank deposit of ten grand not to mention an alleged suicide and possible bribery...well, it may lead to the filing of Articles of impeachment against the governor! The attorney general's office finds that an incriminating letter found in a safe was typed in the governor's very own computer. Alas, another murder occurs and a saucy secretary, Glenda Farrell, may be implicated. Glenda is played by Hazel Normandie who is the brightest spurt of energy in the whole film.
The screenplay is hogwash though the actors are hardly banal - it is just them uttering banalities. Nothing in the murder investigation yields much in the way of surprise. Warren William seems ready to burst through the screen with force yet he never gets there as the savvy hubby. Barbara Stanwyck does just fine with her role yet it is the couple I was more interested in than the mediocre plot. You kinda wish there was a rewrite and that Stanwyck and William were given more to do than to be used as pawns in a story we've seen a million times before.
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