Seance on a Wet Afternoon
- 1964
- 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
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A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
- 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
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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
This is what British Cinema could have been
One Saturday afternoon (not a wet one!) my mother happened to flick over from the sports on one channel to uncover an absolute gem of BRITISH Cinema from the 1960's. A little later I happened to come from my 'office', from where I run my home-based business, into the living room and was utterly transfixed by some of the greatest acting of all time in a British picture, together with a masterpiece of investigating the cinematic possibilities of the British city- and landscape. It's such a shame that the film wasn't a commercial success and that the independent production company behind it folded not long after the film's release. Both Mum and myself were amazed that we'd never even heard of Kim Stanley, who apparently was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in 'Seance...'. She should have been in more films than she was, but then again that was her choice to go more for theatrical work. I'd recommend this film to anybody and give it top rating.
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- Dec 11, 2001
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- Release date
- 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
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- £143,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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