Bunny Lake is Missing
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSINGÂ (PG)
D: Otto Preminger
Columbia/Wheel (Otto Preminger)
UK 🇬🇧 1965
107 mins
Mystery/Thriller
W: John Mortimer & Penelope Mortimer [based on the novel
by Evelyn Piper]
DP: Denys Coop
Ed: Peter Thornton
Mus: Paul Glass
Carol Lynley (Ann Lake), Keir Dullea (Steven
Lake), Laurence Olivier (Superintendent Newhouse), Martita Hunt (Ada Ford), Anna Massey (Elvira Smollett)
An underrated but uneven British produced mystery, full of
style but an unconvincing ending feels out of place with the build-up.
A
newly arrived American woman in London attends a school to collect her daughter on her first day but she has disappeared, as has every proof of her ever existing.
For the most part, this mystery feels like a Hitchcock film,
where it plays with a psychological aspect of the lead female character's mind. Carol Lynley very much holds her own against Laurence Olivier, who comes close to stealing the whole movie. It's
only Keir Dullea's character which feels out of place in an otherwise good mystery-thriller.
6/10
