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Film Description
This classic psychological thriller from Otto Preminger stars Carol Lynley as Ann Lake, a single mother who has just moved to London with her young daughter, Bunny. When she arrives to pick Bunny up from nursery school, she finds that her daughter has vanished without a trace. All record of her daughter's existence has been erased, and the police are soon convinced that Bunny was a figment of her mother's imagination. Ann's brother corroborates this hypothesis, and soon the frantic mother is left to her own devices in the search for a daughter in whose existence only she believes. Laurence Olivier turns in a stellar performance as the police chief, and the supporting cast includes Noel Coward and Keir Dullea. Moodily atmospheric in black and white, a surreal pitch is achieved in the film's depiction of the dark underbelly of London and the eccentric characters who populate it.
Notwithstanding film fans' delight at having this movie available again it is design students and Saul Bass afficionados who will be thrilled that after far too long o... more >
Notwithstanding film fans' delight at having this movie available again it is design students and Saul Bass afficionados who will be thrilled that after far too long one of his greatest credit sequences is accessible once more. The simplicity of the tearing paper sequences belies the intrinsic value of the sequence to the whole film. Although iconic is a much maligned epithet nowadays it is surely appropriate for both the credits and his poster for the film which takes the simple torn paper shape of a child and invests it with an appalling sense of loss. < less
Mark Goodall on 12th July 2007
Despite indifferent reviews when it was released, concerning trivial matters such as plot credibility and camera angles, this Preminger effort plays now as an effectiv... more >
Despite indifferent reviews when it was released, concerning trivial matters such as plot credibility and camera angles, this Preminger effort plays now as an effective and disturbing psycho-thriller. Filmed, like many British shockers of the 1960s, in gritty monochrome, and with a strong cast (including Olivier, Anne Massey and a pre-2001 Keir Dullea) this tale of the hunt for a missing child contains a good amount of suspense and twists. Bunny Lake is four year-old belonging to a young American mother who has arrived in England with her brother. Bunny mysteriously vanishes on her first day at the austere ‘Little People’s Garden School’ and it’s not hard to see why they run aground in a distinctly un-swinging London. The labyrinth their daughter is caught up in incorporates frightening schools, gloomy hospitals, grim pubs and unhelpful public servants. The Lakes endure a perverted landlord (Noël Coward) and a madwoman in the attic (a retired schoolmistress now researching dark childhood dreams and fantasies). Even the typical inclusion of a groovy beat combo (The Zombies) fails to lift the oppressive air. < less
