Media magnate Dottie Peale has own candidate for an international atomic committee, but the President chooses Maj. Gen. Melvill "Lronpants" Goodwin. So the asks Goodwin to spend the weekend at her estate. Dottie plans to set him up for a fall...and ends up falling in love. In their only screen paiting, Susan Hayward and Kirk Douglas share a Top
Secret Affair that shows both stars to advantage. Hayward is all fiery brauty, vamping Douglas on the dance floor and after too many martinis, wobbling along a diving board fully dressed. Douglas is all ramrod-straight intensity, balancing effortlessly on a precarious bongo board and calmly removing jacket and shoes to dive in after Hayward when the inevitable occurs.