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Plot summary
American single mother Ann Lake has recently arrived in London from New York with her daughter Bunny, and her brother Steven, a magazine reporter, helps her move into a new house. On Bunny's first day at the Little People's Garden preschool, Ann leaves the child in a waiting room so she can get home for the movers. When she comes back for Bunny, the girl is gone, and the administrator who remembers Ann has never seen the child. Ann and Steven search the building and meet Ada Ford, an elderly woman upstairs who says she collects children's nightmares. Superintendent Newhouse and his officers take the case; the school has no registration for Bunny, and Steven is the only person who vouches for the child, while the police look for proof that Bunny exists.
Cast
- Paul Atkinsonas The Zombies
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
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- Director Otto Preminger found the 1957 novel's ending unconvincing, so he changed the identity of the would-be murderer, which forced many rewrites from his British husband-and-wife screenwriters John Mortimer and Penelope Mortimer before he was satisfied.
- With director Otto Preminger in the studio, the Zombies recorded a two-minute radio ad set to their song "Just Out of Reach" that urged audiences to "Come on time!" in keeping with the film's no-late-admissions policy; the article calls it an early instance of Hollywood's promotional tie-ins with popular musical acts.
- Preminger's sinister vision of London used real locations: the Barry Elder Doll Museum in Hammersmith stood in for the dolls' hospital, the preschool scenes used school buildings in Hampstead, and the "Frogmore End" house was Cannon Hall, which had belonged to novelist Daphne du Maurier's father Sir Gerald du Maurier.
