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Otto Preminger dismissed Bunny Lake Is Missing as his "small" and "unsuccessful" project. Next to the director's behemoth, Exodus, and his jewel, Laura, the film certainly pales in scope and accolades. Yet in the years since Preminger's death, this insignificant mystery has become a cult favorite and a critics' doll. Cinema aficionados have rallied for its video release and scholars Jeanine Basinger and Andrew Sarris show it regularly in their film studies courses. Bunny Lake Is Missing really is an oddly compelling piece of work. The picture's veteran actors, Laurence Olivier and Nol Coward, embrace their own hamminess and play their eccentric characters with bravado. As a result, the comic idiosyncrasies of Olivier's detective and Coward's landlord never appear clichd or boring. Keir Dullea, fresh from winning both a Golden Globe and a British Academy Award, is equally explosive and genuinely sinister as Stephen Lake. His true-life antagonistic relationship with Preminger comes through in his character -- Stephen is erratic, frustrated, and deliciously passive-aggressive. In contrast, Carol Lynley's performance as Ann is so delicately understated that the girl's alienation from her male counterparts is frighteningly palpable. In fact, Preminger's use of Lynley as the tortured young blonde is celebrated as one of the many blatantly Hitchcockian elements of the psychological thriller. However, while Hitchcock preferred to create drama by drawing attention to physical objects, Preminger does so by simply drawing out scenes. Each long take is a little too long, each silence is a little too lengthy, and each character seems to abuse his or her chance to talk. This combination manages to disconcert as well as mesmerize. ~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, All Movie Guide
Synopsis
Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day at a new nursery school. Oddly, Ann cannot locate any teachers or administrators, only the school's disgruntled cook (Lucie Mannheim). She is forced to leave Bunny unsupervised in the building's "first day" room, under the reassurance that the cook will be responsible for the child. When Ann returns in the afternoon, the cook has quit and Bunny Lake is missing. The school's remaining employees vehemently deny ever seeing the child, and Ann desperately calls her older brother Stephen (Keir Dullea) for help. Ann was raised fatherless and never married; she and Bunny have lived under Stephen's care and protection for the majority of both their lives. Stephen is enraged by the irresponsibility of the staff, but as Scotland Yard begins its investigation, it comes to light that he had never officially enrolled a child at the school. When Police Superintendent Newhouse (Laurence Olivier) begins to unravel the Lakes' lives and search their belongings, he discovers that not only did Ann once have an imaginary childhood daughter named "Bunny," but that the young Bunny seemed to have no tangible possessions at the Lake apartment. Bunny Lake (whom we have yet to see onscreen) may not be missing: she may not even be real. Terrified that Newhouse will now abandon the search for the girl, the hysterical Ann sets out to prove her sanity and, in the process, surprisingly uncovers the true psychosis behind the disappearance of her little Bunny Lake. ~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, All Movie Guide
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