Secret Ceremony (1968) on Netflix
Leonora, a penniless prostitute in London, is followed by a strange young woman, Cenci, who calls her mummy and takes her to a mansion where the girl lives alone.
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- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.2/102,976 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes64%
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Plot summary
On a London bus, Leonora, an aging prostitute, is approached by Cenci, a waiflike young woman who calls her mummy. Cenci follows her to a cemetery where Leonora mourns the daughter she lost to drowning five years earlier at the age of ten; struck by the girl's resemblance to the child, Leonora agrees to go with her to an opulent mansion where Cenci lives alone. Leonora resembles Cenci's late mother, Margaret, and agrees to stay as a surrogate mother, hiding when Cenci's aunts Hannah and Hilda visit and steal valuables. Leonora confronts the aunts at their antique shop, where they say Cenci nursed Margaret through her illness, refused to accept her death, and is 22 despite seeming much younger.
Cast
- George Howellas First Cleaner (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Secret Ceremony (1968)
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- Robert Mitchum said in an October 1969 interview with Roger Ebert that the production of Secret Ceremony was already "in trouble" when he arrived, and that his presence did not help.
