Was it magic... Or murder they planned?
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
- 7.2
- 1964
- Released
- 1h 51m
Kim Stanley
Myra
Richard Attenborough
Bill
Margaret Lacey
Woman at first Seance
Marie Burke
Woman at first Seance
Maria Kazan
Woman at first SeanceLionel Gamlin
Man at SeancesMarian Spencer
Mrs. Wintry
Godfrey James
Mrs. Clayton's ChauffeurJudith Donner
Amanda
Ronald Hines
Policeman outside Clayton'sHajni Biro
Maid at Clayton's
Mark Eden
Mr. Clayton
Nanette Newman
Mrs. ClaytonDiana Lambert
Mr. Clayton's SecretaryFrank Singuineau
Bus Conductor
Gerald Sim
BeedleStanley Morgan
Man in Trilby
Maggie Rennie
Woman at Second Seance
Michael Lees
Plain Clothes Policeman
Patrick Magee
Walsh
Released
en
- #london, england
- #husband wife relationship
- #based on novel or book
- #ransom
- #kidnapping
- #medium
- #working class
- #black and white
- #mental illness
- #occult
- #séance
- #british new wave
- #loss of child
- #stillbirth
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Because your weak, and you need me. Myra Savage is a struggling psychic, who along with her weak-willed husband, Billy, kidnap the young daughter of wealthy parents. The plan is to extort money from the fretting parents and then for Myra to help the parents find the child with her psychic ability, thus improving her standing in the psychic field. But as the story unfolds, Myra grows ever more