Maria DiBattista ( Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp) (The Feminist Press at The City University of New York: New York, 2004) ( ISBN 1-55861-474-5). Evelyn Piper: Bunny Lake Is Missing, ed.The project collapsed when Witherspoon withdrew.Ī stage production, adapted by Ken Simon from the novel, played January 4–14, 2012 at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The locale was changed from New York to London and the ending was changed.Ī remake was planned in 2007, to be directed by Joe Carnahan with Reese Witherspoon in the lead. It’s the first day of school when this story begins. She lives alone, has a job, and has never been married. Blanche Lake is not like the other mothers who come to collect their children at the local nursery school on New York’s Upper East Side. The novel was adapted as a film in 1965, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Martita Hunt and Noël Coward. The classic novel of suspense is a headlong story of nerve-wracking tension, psychological validity and emotional drive (Oakland Tribune). The plot takes place all within the space of 24 hours. Before daybreak, she thinks she knows where Bunny is. Over the course of the ensuing night, she tries everything in her power to find out what has happened to her. Directed by Otto Preminger and starring Carol Lynley and Laurence Olivier (with music by the Zombies), the. Blanche Lake, a 21-year-old single mother, wants to collect her three-year-old daughter Bunny from her first day at day care but finds that she is not there. Bunny Lake is about the only thing missing from Otto Preminger's exercise in suspense and the viewer is kept in uncertainty about her for most of the film. No wonder the film version of Bunny Lake Is Missing was reset in swinging 1960s London.
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