VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

moonspinner55 Cuckold husband of a London medium gets himself involved in the kidnapping of a child for publicity purposes. Well-crafted British drama, adapted from Mark McShane's novel by director Bryan Forbes, features acclaimed performances by Kim Stanley (Oscar-nominated) and Richard Attenborough (also the producer), and yet none of these ingredients is enough to make the plot palpable--it's dreary instead of darkly comic or macabre. Stanley's visit to the little girl's worried parents should have been a high-point in the narrative, but Forbes drags the scene out until the overall effect becomes melodramatic (it goes limp). The classy filmmakers do not have the knack for pulpy suspense; their combined sophistication and intelligence work against them in this regard, turning the film into a precisely-mounted, anticlimactic downer. ** from ****

clanciai A very interesting dive into the world of spiritualism with an almost devastating charting of the psychology of a disturbed medium. Kim Stanley's performance as Myra, using the spirit of her stillborn child as a link with the other side, is almost ghoulish, being totally blind to reality and having lost all touch with her own humanity. A drama of great suspense, especially as she insists on a séance when the mother of the child they have kidnapped appears, the child being sick in the next room, it's almost unbearably uncomfortable but extremely interesting and fascinating. Bryan Forbes, born today in 1926, died last year, made a number of very diverse and tricky films, sometimes experimental, but always intelligent. This was one of his best, certainly a suspense thriller dealing with the out of the ordinary... One of the last great noir films.

Rainey Dawn This is an awesome lesser known film that fans of crime-thrillers and horror should watch! I did not expect the movie to be so interesting. The longer I watched the film the more I became fascinated with the events unfolding on screen. It's not the greatest movie but yet something about it is captivating... very good. I did not expect the movie to end exactly the way it did - so I was a little bit surprised, but pleasantly.The movie *almost* has an Alfred Hitchcock(ish) feel about it - I can't quite place what that is... but maybe it's just me. It is, however, right up their with some of Hitchcock's works.I love movies like this on stormy late nights... snuggled in a blanket deeply engrossed in an older creepy thriller horror flick like this one! 8.5/10

Paris55 I agree with the comment provided by author djlink, Alexandria, VA regarding the Oscars. Unfortunately for Kim Stanley in "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" Julie Andrews won the Oscar not for her performance in Mary Poppins BUT for the controversy over Andrews not getting the part in the movie "My Fair Lady". Andrews created the part on Broadway. When the movie was cast, the producers chose Audrey Hepburn, for name recognition. Many in Hollywood industry and the Academy were not thrilled over the slight and thought that was a major mistake, therefore giving Andrews the Oscar for Mary Poppins, no matter who else was nominated and their performance. This happens much too often and in recent years as of 2011. The Oscars are more political now than they were back in the 1960s.