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Three Secrets
UNITED STATES · 1950

Three Secrets

Robert Wise
adoption maternal identity past secrets plane crash survival redemption
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Synopsis

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to gi

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