The "secret" is continually thrown in the viewer's face; there is no mystery about it. The production is too mechanical and cranked out; it gets boring. Poor screenplay, followed by poor direction and mediocre acting, followed by choppy editing. Its kind of like a cake baked in a microwave, burned around the edges and still raw in the center. As is unfortunately typical of many period productions, it requires that the viewer already have a general understanding of the social history of the time; in this case that a woman's only protection in life was to be either born into money, or marry it. The author used various details from her own life in the original story.
Review of Lady Audley's Secret
