Product: Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
Rating: 4.0
OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 31
***1/2 1965. Based on Evelyn Piper'sBunny Lake is Missing (Femmes Fatales)and produced and directed by Otto Preminger. London. When Ann Lake, who's just arrived from the United States, wants to pick up her daughter the first day from the school, Bunny is missing. After a few days, Supt. Newhouse starts to wonder if Bunny Lake really exists. Good mystery thriller that reminded me of a film shot 23 years later: Roman Polanski'sFrantic. In both movies, the tension is created by the anxiety of Americans, lost in a European country, who don't understand the way the local police is working. Note, in a small role, Anna Massey, one of the future victims of the killer of Alfred Hitchcock'sFrenzy. Recommended.