critiQs

Login Sign-up
Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

# Was it magic... Or murder they planned?
Crime   Thriller   Drama
📜 Overview: Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 1964-06-19
⌚ Running Time: 111 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.2

Beloved Cast

Kim Stanley original image
Myra
Kim Stanley
Richard Attenborough original image
Bill
Richard Attenborough
Margaret Lacey original image
Woman at first Seance
Margaret Lacey
Marie Burke original image
Woman at first Seance
Marie Burke
Maria Kazan original image
Woman at first Seance
Maria Kazan
Lionel Gamlin original image
Man at Seances
Lionel Gamlin
Marian Spencer original image
Mrs. Wintry
Marian Spencer
Godfrey James original image
Mrs. Clayton's Chauffeur
Godfrey James
Judith Donner original image
Amanda
Judith Donner
Ronald Hines original image
Policeman outside Clayton's
Ronald Hines
Hajni Biro original image
Maid at Clayton's
Hajni Biro
Mark Eden original image
Mr. Clayton
Mark Eden
Nanette Newman original image
Mrs. Clayton
Nanette Newman
Diana Lambert original image
Mr. Clayton's Secretary
Diana Lambert
Frank Singuineau original image
Bus Conductor
Frank Singuineau
Gerald Sim original image
Beedle
Gerald Sim
Stanley Morgan original image
Man in Trilby
Stanley Morgan
Maggie Rennie original image
Woman at Second Seance
Maggie Rennie
Michael Lees original image
Plain Clothes Policeman
Michael Lees
Patrick Magee original image
Walsh
Patrick Magee

Similar Movies

6.9
Movie Name : Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
Release Date : 🕔 1932-05-14
Average Rating: 6.9
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. …

7.3
Movie Name : Closely Watched Trains
Release Date : 🕔 1966-11-18
Average Rating: 7.3
Genres:
Duration :

overview : At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious …

6.804
Movie Name : Cruel Intentions
Release Date : 🕔 1999-03-05
Average Rating: 6.804
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. …

7.325
Movie Name : Lolita
Release Date : 🕔 1962-06-13
Average Rating: 7.325
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. …

7.9
Movie Name : Roman Holiday
Release Date : 🕔 1953-08-26
Average Rating: 7.9
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative …

7.825
Movie Name : Rosemary's Baby
Release Date : 🕔 1968-06-12
Average Rating: 7.825
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious …

5.686
Movie Name : Animal Farm
Release Date : 🕔 1999-10-03
Average Rating: 5.686
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this …

8.1
Movie Name : M
Release Date : 🕔 1931-05-11
Average Rating: 8.1
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive …

6.5
Movie Name : The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Release Date : 🕔 2004-05-17
Average Rating: 6.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, …

8.1
Movie Name : In the Mood for Love
Release Date : 🕔 2000-09-29
Average Rating: 8.1
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses.

7.2
Movie Name : 2046
Release Date : 🕔 2004-10-29
Average Rating: 7.2
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses …

7.7
Movie Name : Strangers on a Train
Release Date : 🕔 1951-06-27
Average Rating: 7.7
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away …

7.7
Movie Name : Brief Encounter
Release Date : 🕔 1945-11-24
Average Rating: 7.7
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into …

7.527
Movie Name : Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Release Date : 🕔 1988-06-22
Average Rating: 7.527
Genres:
Duration :

overview : 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective …

7.2
Movie Name : Dangerous Liaisons
Release Date : 🕔 1988-12-21
Average Rating: 7.2
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another …

6.5
Movie Name : The Running Man
Release Date : 🕔 1987-11-13
Average Rating: 6.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. …

7.32
Movie Name : Finding Neverland
Release Date : 🕔 2004-10-17
Average Rating: 7.32
Genres:
Duration :

overview : During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an …

7.643
Movie Name : Planet of the Apes
Release Date : 🕔 1968-02-07
Average Rating: 7.643
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation …

Comments (0)