Bunny Lake is Missing / The 13th Letter

BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, 1967, Sony Repertory, 107 min. Director Otto Preminger’s haunting mystery thriller. Carol Lynley is an American in London whose daughter is kidnapped on the child’s first day at school. The only trouble is: no one else there has ever seen the girl, and before long some are wondering if she truly exists. Laurence Olivier is the police inspector who investigates. With Keir Dullea, Noel Coward.

THE 13TH LETTER, 1951, 85 min. Otto Preminger’s eerie film noir about a spate of poison pen letters was shot on location in a small Canadian town. Adapting director Henri-Georges Clouzot 1943 thriller, LE CORBEAU, Preminger focuses on the sexual pathologies of a group of repressed characters. As the finger of guilt points, the audience is kept guessing. With Charles Boyer as a doctor of fading charms, Michael Rennie as the new physician, and Linda Darnell as a woman with hungry eyes and a clubfoot.