Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Otto Preminger dismissed Bunny Lake Is Missing as his "small" and "unsuccessful" project. Yet in the years since Preminger's death, this insignificant mystery has become a cult favorite and a critics' doll. Cinema aficionados have rallied for its video release and scholars Jeanine Basinger and Andrew Sarris show it regularly in their film studies courses. Bunny Lake Is Missing really is an oddly compelling piece of work. The picture's veteran actors, Laurence Olivier and Noël Coward, embrace their own hamminess and play their eccentric characters with bravado.