The Whole Truth

The Whole Truth (1958)

The Year's Niftiest, Shiftiest Whodunit!

On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to return to his loyal wife, Carol, the jilted actress threatens to reveal details of their affair to Carol. Later, at a party at Max's villa, investigator Carliss arrives with news that Gina has been killed and that Max is a murderer suspect.

Date of release
1958-07-29
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Mystery, Thriller
Director
John Guillermin

Casting

Interesting facts

The Whole Truth is a 1958 British-American thriller film directed by John Guillermin and starring Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Donna Reed, Gianna Maria Canale and Peter Dyneley. It was written by Jonathan Latimer based on the 1955 play of the same title by Philip Mackie.

Production

The US rights and film rights were bought by Gilbert Miller in January 1956. The film was made by Romulus Productions at Walton Studios with some brief location shooting in France. The film's sets were designed by the art director Anthony Masters.

Stewart Granger had just finished his contract with MGM and signed a two-picture deal with Romulus, of which The Whole Truth was to be the first. Jeanne Crain was originally announced as the female lead Carol Poulton, but Donna Reed ended up playing it. George Sanders joined the cast in July 1957.

During shooting, Romulus announced that they had offered Granger a six-picture contract worth $1.5 million; but he made no more films for that company. Teddy Darvas, sound editor, recalled that Granger "behaved exceedingly badly to Jackie Clayton on that film" by demanding large amounts of money to do ADR.

Granger wrote in his memoir Sparks Fly Upward that the film was meant to be the first in a two-picture deal, the second being an adaptation of the Eric Ambler novel The Night-Comers which he would make with Jean Simmons. Granger called The Whole Truth "a run of the mill 'whodunnit'" in which the director John Guillermin "went on to fame directing an oversized ape in the remake of King Kong.

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