Double Feature: SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON & THE WHISPERERS March 3, 2011

Double Feature: SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON, 1964, Janus Films, 115 min. Dir. Bryan Forbes. Mira (Kim Stanley), an opportunistic psychic, and her pushover husband, Bill (Richard Attenborough), concoct a scheme to kidnap a rich couple’s child, and then gain celebrity by pretending to have clairvoyant hunches about the child’s whereabouts. When the police begin to question Mira and Bill - and when Bill becomes paranoid that Mira doesn’t want the child to be found alive - an eerie, spine-tingling thriller unfolds.
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THE WHISPERERS, 1967, MGM Repertory, 105 min. Dir. Bryan Forbes. Elderly Margaret Ross (Edith Evans) hears unearthly whispers in the solitude of her home. When her thieving son and woebegone husband turn up suddenly, Margaret’s unsettling fantasy life turns into a nightmare. With a haunting score by composer John Barry.

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