Lucie Mannheim

Bunny Lake Is Missing -- Sir Laurence Olivier stars as investigator Newhouse of Scotland Yard who is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a four-year-old girl, Bunny Lake. When he can find no evidence that the child even existed he begins to doubt the sanity of the child's unmarried mother, Ann Lake.

Bunny Lake Is Missing -- Perverse. Sinister. Bizarre. Otto Preminger's (Anatomy of a Murder) controversial suspense thriller is availableuncut and uneditedfor the first time on DVD!

When Ann Lake (Carol Lynley) comes to a nursery school in the Hampstead area of London to collect her four-year-old daughter, Bunny, she's told by everyone from the headmistress down that there is no record of the child having been at the school. Ann's brother, Steven (Kier Dullea) an American journalist, tries to help solve the mystery. And after Investigator Newhouse of Scotland Yard is unable to find evidence of Bunny ever being enrolled, he hints that the child could be a figment of the young unmarried mother's imagination. Ann desperately insists that her Bunny is both real and missing. While searching for something that might give the authorities proof of Bunny's reality, Ann finds that the child's toys and possessions -- even her passport -- are all missing. Remembering a doll she sent to a "doll's hospital" for repair, Ann rushes to claim it. And after it helps uncover a well-planned plot to make her doubt her sanity, Ann is able to find herself when they finally find her missing daughter.

When Ann Lake (Carol Lynley) goes to pick up four-year-old Bunny at her new preschool in London, she's told that no child by that name is enrolled there! Superintendent Newhouse (Lawrence Olivier) of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case. His suspects include: Steven Lake (Keir Dullea), the child's protective uncle; Horatio Wilson (Noel Coward), the Lake's decadent landlord; and Aida Ford (Martita Hunt), the school's eccentric ex-headmistress, but he soon learns that no one has actually seen the child and there is absolutely no proof that Bunny ever existed! Ann maintains the child's been kidnapped, but Newhouse begins to suspect that the hysterical young woman may just be insane.