THE SECRET: EPISODE 1 [IMPORT]

Details

• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund, and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad, and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull", bringing Gould some celebrity, and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat, lead to a break-up, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death, and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
• Cast: Colin Buchanan, Clare Higgins, Hannah Yelland, Stephen Moyer, June Whitfield, Marlene Sidaway, Joanna Rowden, Adam Ironside, Milton Johns, Malcolm Terris, Daniel Ainsleigh, Elizabeth Carling, William Finnigan, Stephen Hawksby, Lynn Hender, Terence Hillyer, Nicholas Lumley, Martin McGlade, Andy Mulligan, David Raynor, Ken Richardson, Joy Sanders, Michael Simkins, Paula Wright, T.R. Bowen, Catherine Cookson
• Director: Stanley Tucci
• Runtime: 2:36
• Media Format: movie