Review of His Secret Family

Michael Feifer has done most of the job on the film as both writer, director, producer and so on, and it's not a bad job. The intrigue is intriguing to say the least, a husband with a sick son under age fails to turn up at a crucial meeting with a doctor, and he never turns up, so naturally the wife starts to worry. When the detectives start to think he has abandoned his family they search for reasons for such an act and only manage to upset and alienate her, so she refuses to cooperate and takes the law into her own hands, the very thing the police has warned her against. It's for the audience to judge if she did the right thing and was successful, so this is chiefly a film for worried mothers with children under age, for they would understand her. Neither her husband, the policemen nor her best female friend do that but only do their best to oppose and counteract her, assuring her they only want to help. It's an old efficient pattern of suspense chiefly used in kidnapping films, and you almost expect something like that to happen here. Instead there are other treats of excitement, the greatest being probably the final one, the case of two motor boats, one chasing the other, the other smartly outwitting him by simply being prepared. It's not an ace of a thriller, but the psychology of it is interesting, and any mother's heart would bleed of understanding of a desperate case.