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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Country
of Origin: USA / UK
Year of Production: 1965
Running Times: 107 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: Panavision (anamorphic)
2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation / Wheel Productions
Producer: Otto Preminger
Associate Producer: Martin C. Schute
Production Managers: Eva Monley, Douglas Peirce
SCRIPT
Script: John Mortimer, Penelope Mortimer
Novel: Evelyn Piper (real name: Marryam Modell)
DIRECTION
Director: Otto Preminger
Assistant Director: Bryan Coates, Ivo Nightingale, Bernie Williams
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Denys Coop
Camera Operator: Gerry Fisher
Chief Electrician: Peter Carey
Grip: Dick Savery
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Peter Thornton
MUSIC
Music: Paul Glass
Music Editor: Valerie Lesser
SOUND
Sound: Jonathan Bates
Sound Recordists: Claude Hitchcock, Red Law
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Neville Smallwood
Hair: Maud Onslow
Costume Designer: Hope Bryce
Wardrobe Master: Ray Beck
Wardrobe Mistress: Evelyn Gibbs
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Charles Staffell
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Don Ashton
Property Master: Harry Newman
Title Designer: Saul Bass
OTHER CREW
Continuity Supervisor: Pam Carlton
Production Accountant: David White
Production Secretary: Noreen Hipwell
Assistant to Producer: Max Slater
CASTING
Casting: James Liggat
Set Decorators: Scott Slimon, Elven Webb
CAST
Keir Dullea (Stephen Lake)
Carol Lynley (Ann Lake)
Lucie Mannheim (Cook)
Noel Coward (Wilson)
Delphi Lawrence (1st mother at school)
Martita Hunt (Ada Ford)
Anna Massey (Elvira)
Jill Melford (teacher)
Laurence Olivier (Superintendent Newhouse)
Victor Maddern (taxi driver)
Clive Revill (Andrews)
Damaris Hayman (Daphne)
Suzanne Neve (2nd mother at school)
Adrienne Corri (Dorothy)
Kika Markham (nurse)
Jane Evers (policewoman)
John Sharp (fingerprint man)
Geoffrey Frederick (police photographer)
Percy Herbert (policeman at station)
Patrick Jordan (policeman)
Fred Emney (man in Soho)
Michael Wynne (Rogers)
Finlay Currie (doll-maker)
Bill Maxam (barman)
Tim Brinton (newscaster)
Richard Wattis (clerk in shipping office)
David Oxley (doctor)
John Forbes-Robertson (hospital attendant)
Megs Jenkins (hospital sister)
Suky Appleby (Bunny)
The Zombies (real names: Rod Argent, Paul Atkinson, Colin Blunstone,
Hugh Grundy, Chris White) (rock band)
Dan Jackson
Ann Lancaster
Norman Mitchell
Lisa Peake
PLOT SUMMARY
American Ann Lake relocates to the UK and seems
to have a comfortable, settled life. Then one day, her daughter Bunny
goes missing and there's no evidence that the girl ever existed. Has
Ann fantasised the entire life of her young daughter or is there something
more sinister going on?
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Sweden
Rating: 15
AWARDS
1966
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Edgar: Best Motion Picture (John Mortimer, Penelope Mortimer) - nominated
1967
British Academy Awards
Best British Art Direction (black and white) (Donald M. Ashton) -
nominated
Best British Cinematography (black and white) (Denys N. Coop) - nominated
TIMELINE
1965
October
3: UK - theatrical release
1966
February
2: Sweden - theatrical release
4: Finland - theatrical release
June
28: Denmark - theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Bunny Lake è scomparsa - Italian title
Bunny Lake ist verschwunden - German title
Bunny Lake savnes - Danish title
Bunny on kadonnut - Finnish title
Desapareceu Bunny Lake - Portugese title
El rapto de Bunny Lake - Spanish title
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
TV Times 11-17 August 1984 p.38 (UK)
credits KEYWORDS
book into film; paranoia; mental illness; incest;
kidnapping
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