They are also credited in the film for contributing three songs - Remember You Just Out of Reach and Nothing's Changed. The clips were taken from their earlier performance on Ready Steady Go!, a British rock/pop musical television programme, and used in this film.

Check out the English rock band, The Zombies, giving a cameo appearance in a television broadcast in the film. A haunting classic that definitely leaves a mark in you mind.Ī. Both films have the same premise - a mother looking for her daughter and nobody believes she exists.Īll in all it makes for an unevenly made psychological thriller that towards the end makes you wonder how much a brain can manipulate and be manipulated and what happens when people don’t leave their imaginary world that they spin as children even after they grow up. The summary of the movie shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel's guide reminded me of two films - the 2005 psychological thriller mystery film Flightplan starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard and Sean Bean in the lead cast and the 2016 Indian Telugu language mystery thriller Kshanam (= moment) starring Adivi Shesh and Adah Sharma. Surprisingly the story doesn’t center around him although he is top billed. His age doesn’t make him any less better than how he acted in the films as a young actor. Laurence Olivier is at his best as always in the role of Superintendent Newhouse. He did not allow audiences into the theater once the film started going so far as to include on the film poster a warning - 'No One Admitted While the Clock Is Ticking!'. Preminger also used the concept that Hitchcock used for his 1960 American psychological horror thriller film Psycho. And has a slightly different ending compared to the book. He also changed the antagonist's identity in the film compared to the one in book. Preminger moved the location to London as opposed to New York in the original book and also used several of London locations in filming such as Barry Elder Doll Museum that he used in place of the dolls' hospital. It was also filmed in black-and-white but in widescreen format in London, and takes place in a space of 24 hours. Screenplay was given by John and Penelope Mortimer, a husband-and-wife writing team. The film is based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Merriam Model who wrote this book under her pen name Evelyn Piper. Now Ann, with help of her brother Steven Lake (portrayed by Keir Dullea), starts to look for Bunny and even call the police who send Superintendent Newhouse (portrayed by Lawrence Olivier) to investigate. No one at the school seem to remember the child, although everyone remembers Ann. Ann Lake (portrayed by Carol Lynley) arrives at her daughter's, Bunny Lake, pre-school to collect her, only to be told that there was no child by name Bunny Lake ever dropped at the school.

Bunny Lake Is Missing by Evelyn Piper