BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING – watched this Otto Preminger film last night and was really impressed. Made in London in 1965, film is the tale of Anne Lake, a "fresh-off-the-boat" American who has arrived in the city with her young daughter, Bunny so that she can be closer to her journalist brother, Stephen. Hurriedly enrolling Bunny in a Hampstead school, Anne returns home to unpack, but is soon horrified to discover that Bunny has gone missing. Worse still is that no one in the school remembers seeing the child and the investigating officer (played to the hilt by Laurence Olivier) soon begins to suspect Anne of inventing the very existence of her daughter...
The film is excellent, briskly-paced and brilliantly acted. Carol Lyney (who plays Anne), Olivier, Keir Dullea and Noel Coward all turn in some great performances. Shot in monochromatic Panavision, the film looks absolutely sensational. Definitely recommended.