Bunny Lake Is Missing

1965 "No one admitted while the clock is ticking!"
7.3| 1h47m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 03 October 1965 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United Kingdom
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A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

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ada the leading man is my tpye
TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film
Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable
Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Manhattan William The film is extremely creepy in a very good way. The cinematography and location shooting add to the unsettled feeling the film gives off. Still, I was able to figure out who was responsible for Bunny's missing quite early on ALTHOUGH I was not prepared for the bizarre final outcome of the film. I mean to say that the relationship between the brother and sister and their "play time" during the final scenes really were a bit too contrived for my taste.My final comments are that I enjoyed the film. I liked the underplaying on the part of all the principle actors. Olivier and cast display little emotion considering the premise of the film but that in some way adds to the tension. The landlord is an additional creepy element I would have scored the film higher if the ending had been a bit stronger. My final feelings were that yes I enjoyed it but also a bit of letdown that it didn't pack more punch at the end.
SnoopyStyle Ann Lake (Carol Lynley) is an American recently settled in London. She comes to pick up her daughter Bunny after her first day and finds her missing. Nobody seems to know anything about her. Her brother magazine reporter Steven Lake (Keir Dullea) is the only one who knows her. Superintendent Newhouse (Laurence Olivier) investigates but soon wonders if she has made the whole thing up.This movie starts off with such a powerful compelling sequence as Ann Lake try to find her daughter at the school. It's a nightmare that is close to heart for every parent. However as it goes on, I found the movie to be uneven. Olivier is able to hold the various pieces together but I found the brother to be unreal. Director Otto Preminger made a very interesting movie that I found some parts to be more compelling than others. Overall, I found the good parts to be so great that the less good parts aren't that bothersome.
portaeporta Maybe I am the first non UK or US person who post a review here about this film. I think the film was for Premminger, a opportunity to show his anxiety about the fragility of the western democracy. The film was made few years after the very terrible years of McCarthy time, where the repression and persecution by political reason typical for a totalitarian state. In "Bunny Lake Is Missing" he try to show how easy the state institution can lose there function and can become a tool for abusive and repressive Ararat. It 's help us to know Otto Premminger background if we want to understand his movies. He is much more sofisticate than the usual Hollywood film maker, maybe that's the reason why he use to make theater in NY.When we watch his movies we can think from the ideological point of view he was a humanist, a kind of left-liberal. He has not really a country, he belong not really to a nation, but he is a great human. Therefore the film "Bunny Lake Is Missing" is more a subversive film than a Hitchcock copy.
LeonLouisRicci Inconsistent and sometimes quite dull as a Director Preminger helms this audacious 60's genre trend of Hammer and Hitchcock, that of the Psychological Thriller. He seems to be right on the pulse of the better of these things when it collapses in the Third Act with missteps of overwrought childhood game silliness. These things are best left to the psyche not acted out on the playground for here it loses all sense of tension. But leading up to the conclusion there is plenty of stimulation both visually and from the unending parade of offbeat and creepy Characters.Things are kept centered by some fine Acting all around and a pastiche of unsettling situations. It's a rewarding Movie if the ending is anti-climatic and uneven.