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Release Date: 1964 Cast: Godfrey James, Nanette Newman, Maria Kazan, Kim Stanley, Gerald Sim, Judith Donner, Richard Attenborough, Patrick Magee, Marian Spencer, Mark Eden, Lionel Gamlin, Marie Burke ...MORE
Cast: Godfrey James, Nanette Newman, Maria Kazan, Kim Stanley, Gerald Sim, Judith Donner, Richard Attenborough, Patrick Magee, Marian Spencer, Mark Eden, Lionel Gamlin, Marie Burke, Margaret Lacey ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Crime Drama, Horror, Film adaptation Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the novel by Mark McShane in which an unstable medium convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and collect the ransom. The film stars Richard Attenborough (who was also the film's co-producer), Kim Stanley, Nanette Newman, Mark Eden and Patrick Magee.
Myra Savage (Kim Stanley) is a self-styled medium who holds séances in her dreary home. Her husband Bill (Richard Attenborough), unable to work full-time, for being asthmatic, assists in his wife’s séances. At... MORE
Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the novel by Mark McShane in which an unstable medium convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and collect the ransom. The film stars Richard Attenborough (who was also the film's co-producer), Kim Stanley, Nanette Newman, Mark Eden and Patrick Magee.
Myra Savage (Kim Stanley) is a self-styled medium who holds séances in her dreary home. Her husband Bill (Richard Attenborough), unable to work full-time, for being asthmatic, assists in his wife’s séances. At Myra’s instigation, Bill kidnaps the young daughter (Judith Donner) of a wealthy couple (Mark Eden and Nanette Newman), confining her in a room (in the Savage home) dressed as a hospital ward. Myra dresses as a nurse to deceive her to believing she is hospitalised. However, Myra insists she is "borrowing" the girl to demonstrate her psychomancy to a police investigator (Patrick Magee) in helping him find the missing girl. However, her plan goes awry as her unsteady mental health begins to fray.
The haunting music played on the phonograph over and over by Myra and Billie throughout the film, in which the LESS
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