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A medium orders her husband to kidnap a child to help her act.A medium orders her husband to kidnap a child to help her act.A medium orders her husband to kidnap a child to help her act.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 7 wins & 6 nominations total
Maggie Rennie
- Woman at Second Seance
- (as Margaret McGrath)
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This great, seldom-scene movie stars Kim Stanley as an unbalanced woman who holds seances in her home and concocts a plot to gain celebrity with her so-called "powers". With the help of her husband, she plans to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy couple, then use her "powers"to reveal the girl's whereabouts. As the story unfolds, the audience is shown the reasons behind the woman's emotional problems and the growing inevitability of disaster that her plan holds. Richard Attenborough gives a great performance as he teeters between the desire to fulfill his unhappy wife's scheme and the knowledge that the deed they are doing is wrong. Reccommended for those who want a shiver without the gore. Thought provoking.
- thomandybish
- Apr 5, 2001
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Did you know
- TriviaDirector Bryan Forbes looked for the house with the turret as a film location. When he went to the owner for permission, she asked who was in the movie. When told that an American actress named Kim Stanley, the woman blanched, stepped back, and said that Stanley was one of her oldest friends whom she had not seen in seventeen years.
- GoofsDuring the final séance, there is a closeup of a man's hand with a pinkie ring and gray sleeve, who is not at the table. It is a repeated shot from the previous séance, when the gray-jacketed man took part.
- Quotes
Myra Savage: You know what I sometimes wish? I sometimes wish I *were*... ordinary. Like you. Dead ordinary. Ordinary and *dead* like all the others.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Clock (2010)
- SoundtracksHear my Prayer
Written by Felix Mendelssohn (as Mendelssohn)
Played by George Thalben-Ball (as Sir George Thalben-Ball) (organ)
Sung by Ernest Lough
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- Also known as
- Seance on a Wet Afternoon
- Filming locations
- Staines Stadium, Hythe End, Staines, Surrey, England, UK(abandoned stadium)
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- Budget
- £143,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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