MOVIE

No one admitted while the clock is ticking!
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Adult Status :
Movie ID : 1942
Movie Language : en
Original Title: Bunny Lake Is Missing
Popularity : 7.307
Release : 1965-10-03
Movie Title : Bunny Lake Is Missing
Rate : 7.3
Vote Count : 142
Genre IDs : 18,9648,53
Genres : Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Tagline : No one admitted while the clock is ticking!
Revenue : 0
Runtime : 107
Status : Released

Movie Collection

Collection ID :
Collection Name :

Movie Production Studio

Company Name : Wheel Productions
Budget : 0
HomePage :
IMDB ID : tt0058997
Country Code : GB
Country Name :
Spoken Language : English
Company ID : 800
Company Logo : [COMPANYLOGO]
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Video

Casts and Crews

Cast

1. Carol Lynley ( Carol Lynley ) Acting as Ann Lake




2. Laurence Olivier ( Laurence Olivier ) Acting as Supt. Newhouse




3. Keir Dullea ( Keir Dullea ) Acting as Stephen Lake




4. Martita Hunt ( Martita Hunt ) Acting as Ada Ford




5. Anna Massey ( Anna Massey ) Acting as Elvira Smollett




6. Clive Revill ( Clive Revill ) Acting as Sergeant Andrews




7. Finlay Currie ( Finlay Currie ) Acting as The Doll Maker




8. Noël Coward ( Noël Coward ) Writing as Horatio Wilson




9. Lucie Mannheim ( Lucie Mannheim ) Acting as The Cook




10. Adrienne Corri ( Adrienne Corri ) Acting as Dorothy




11. Megs Jenkins ( Megs Jenkins ) Acting as Sister




12. Delphi Lawrence ( Delphi Lawrence ) Acting as 1st Mother




13. Jill Melford ( Jill Melford ) Acting as Teacher




14. Suzanne Neve ( Suzanne Neve ) Acting as 2nd Mother




15. Richard Wattis ( Richard Wattis ) Acting as Shipping Clerk




16. Suky Appleby ( Suky Appleby ) Acting as Felicia


17. Victor Maddern ( Victor Maddern ) Acting as Cabbie




18. Dan Jackson ( Dan Jackson ) Acting as Mover




19. Percy Herbert ( Percy Herbert ) Acting as Policeman at Station

Crew

1. Otto Preminger ( Otto Preminger ) Directing, Job: Director From Department of Directing




2. Otto Preminger ( Otto Preminger ) Directing, Job: Producer From Department of Production




3. James Liggat ( James Liggat ) Production, Job: Casting From Department of Production




4. Bernard Williams ( Bernard Williams ) Production, Job: Assistant Director From Department of Directing




5. Donald M. Ashton ( Donald M. Ashton ) Art, Job: Production Design From Department of Art




6. Charles Staffell ( Charles Staffell ) Crew, Job: Special Effects From Department of Crew




7. Martin C. Schute ( Martin C. Schute ) Production, Job: Producer From Department of Production




8. Paul Glass ( Paul Glass ) Sound, Job: Original Music Composer From Department of Sound




9. Denys N. Coop ( Denys N. Coop ) Camera, Job: Director of Photography From Department of Camera




10. Peter Thornton ( Peter Thornton ) Editing, Job: Editor From Department of Editing




11. Maude Onslow ( Maude Onslow ) Costume & Make-Up, Job: Hairstylist From Department of Costume & Make-Up




12. John Mortimer ( John Mortimer ) Writing, Job: Screenplay From Department of Writing




13. Elven Webb ( Elven Webb ) Art, Job: Set Decoration From Department of Art




14. Penelope Mortimer ( Penelope Mortimer ) Writing, Job: Screenplay From Department of Writing




15. Douglas Peirce ( Douglas Peirce ) Production, Job: Production Manager From Department of Production




16. Marryam Modell ( Marryam Modell ) Writing, Job: Author From Department of Writing




17. Neville Smallwood ( Neville Smallwood ) Costume & Make-Up, Job: Makeup Artist From Department of Costume & Make-Up




18. Eva Monley ( Eva Monley ) Production, Job: Production Manager From Department of Production




19. Scott Slimon ( Scott Slimon ) Art, Job: Set Decoration From Department of Art




20. Hope Bryce ( Hope Bryce ) Costume & Make-Up, Job: Costume Design From Department of Costume & Make-Up




21. Bryan Coates ( Bryan Coates ) Production, Job: Assistant Director From Department of Directing




22. Noreen Hipwell ( Noreen Hipwell ) Production, Job: Production Secretary From Department of Production

Movie Review

• ( John Chard ) give rating 9
Just out of reach.

Bunny Lake is Missing is directed by Otto Preminger and adapted to screenplay by John & Penelope Mortimer from the novel of the same name written by Marryam Modell (AKA: Evelyn Piper). It stars Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Martita Hunt & Noel Coward. Music is by Paul Glass and cinematography by Denys N. Coop. 1960s Brit Pop combo The Zombies also feature in the film.

Ann Lake (Lynley) turns up at her daughter's school to collect her after her first day there, but nobody has any recollection of ever having seen the four year old...

It was a film that irked Otto Preminger, he was never happy with the finished product, this even after changing the ending from the one in the novel and relocating the story from New York to London. Yet time has been very kind to the film, after re-evaluations from auteurist critics the film has found a sturdy fan-base, giving it cult classic status and a reputation as a sleeper classic of its type. You feel that with its thematic links to Hitchcock's Psycho, Preminger wanted to make a film worthy of being in the same league as Hitch's classic. Certainly the marketing for the film lends one to think the makers wanted to be compared with it, that it of course isn't on a par with Psycho is a given, otherwise it would be more well known. But it's a damn fine picture, stitched together impeccably by Preminger, film holds attention and intrigue from Saul Bass' nifty opening credit sequence, right to the eerie denouement.

Here we go round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, The mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning.

With real London locations used and Coop's pin sharp black and white (shadowy) photography tight to the unsettling mood, story carries an air of psychological discord about it. The mystery element is strong, and this coupled with the edgy, near unhealthy, relationship between Ann and her brother Stephen (Dullea), makes for a "shifting in your seat" experience. Then there's the small matter of Noel Coward as Horatio Wilson, creepy landlord extraordinaire, he may not be in it for much, but the impression made creeps the flesh. Slotted into the tight narrative are scenes that the likes of Hitchcock, Welles and Kubrick would be proud of, where Preminger calls on his film noir know how to feverishly glide around a doll shop and track his actors as they cavort around a children's garden play area. All topped off by the supreme performance of Olivier as analytical Superintendent Newhouse, a man calm and versed in psychology, he is the perfect contrast to the hysteria and borderline mania that surrounds him.

Is it Hitchcockian? As some critics have called it? Well yes it is, but not overtly so, it has closer links in tone and narrative thrust to under seen British thrillers like Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962) and Taste of Fear (1961). Is it flawless? No! Dullea is way too animated, some character reactions to situations are eyebrow-raising and Paul Glass' score is at times maddeningly wrong for the mood sequence it accompanies. But they are problems easily forgivably when taking the film as a whole. 8.5/10