Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
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. london, england, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, ransom, kidnapping, medium, working class, black and white, mental illness, occult, séance, british new wave, loss of child, stillbirth
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