Seance on a Wet Afternoon
- 1964
- 1h 55m
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7.6/10
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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)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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
Featured review
Forbes also wrote this one (as he often did). It's hard to find any fault with this movie. You can't get much better than a film, not only written and directed by Forbes, but starring an unforgettable pairing in Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough. Ms. Stanley didn't make too many movies, but this one is enough to show why she's often thought of as the best stage actress of the 20th century.
Just to tell a small bit of the story, it's about a woman and her husband who earn some money giving séances for people. It's unclear whether the husband, played by Attenborough, actually believes anything supernatural is going on, because as the story progresses, what does become clear is that his wife, played by Stanley, is having, or has already had, a serious break with reality.
A word of warning to those thinking this is a movie about the supernatural given the film's title—it is not, although some may see something of the supernatural in the wife's delusional mode of existence. The film is actually about something entirely different—the kidnapping of a young girl. Very suspensefully done from beginning to end.
Just to tell a small bit of the story, it's about a woman and her husband who earn some money giving séances for people. It's unclear whether the husband, played by Attenborough, actually believes anything supernatural is going on, because as the story progresses, what does become clear is that his wife, played by Stanley, is having, or has already had, a serious break with reality.
A word of warning to those thinking this is a movie about the supernatural given the film's title—it is not, although some may see something of the supernatural in the wife's delusional mode of existence. The film is actually about something entirely different—the kidnapping of a young girl. Very suspensefully done from beginning to end.
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Seansa jednog kišnog popodneva
- Filming locations
- Staines Stadium, Hythe End, Staines, Surrey, England, UK(abandoned stadium)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- £143,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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