Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the novel by Mark McShane in which an unstable medium convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and collect the ransom. The film stars Richard Attenborough (who was also the film's co-producer), Kim Stanley, Nanette Newman, Mark Eden and Patrick Magee. Myra Savage (Kim Stanley) is a self-styled medium who holds séances in h... more

Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the novel by Mark McShane in which an unstable medium convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and collect the ransom. The film stars Richard Attenborough (who was also the film's co-producer), Kim Stanley, Nanette Newman, Mark Eden and Patrick Magee. Myra Savage (Kim Stanley) is a self-styled medium who holds séances in her dreary home. Her husband Bill (Richard Attenborough), unable to work full-time, for being asthmatic, assists in his wife’s séances. At Myra’s instigation, Bill kidnaps the young daughter (Judith Donner) of a wealthy couple (Mark Eden and Nanette Newman), confining her in a room (in the Savage home) dressed as a hospital ward. Myra dresses as a nurse to deceive her to believing she is hospitalised; yet, Myra insists she is “borrowing” the girl to demonstrate her psychomancy to a police investigator (Patrick Magee) in helping him find the... less