No application for enrollment or money receipts for payment at the school have turned up and no one in London - including students and teachers where she was dropped off - seems to have even laid eyes on the child. Hell, there's no evidence that her daughter even exists. There is no evidence whatsoever that he daughter has even been in London and no sign of a break-in. Upon returning home, Ann is horrified to discover that her daughter's passport and all of her belongings have vanished into thin air. She then remembers there's one in her passport. Because not all of her things have arrived from America yet, Ann isn't even able to come up with a photo of her daughter.

Newhouse figures she has somehow wandered out of the school and will turn up in due time. A thorough search of the school is conducted, but Bunny is still nowhere to be found. Superintendent Newhouse ( Laurence Olivier) shows up to lead the investigation. Finally fed up, Stephen telephones the police. She's working on a book about children's fantasies and nightmares and the staff apparently encourage her to stay upstairs because she may frighten the little ones. One of them is in the hospital, but the other, Ada Ford ( Martita Hunt) turns out to be a perceptive and possibly crazy eccentric who sits around listening to recordings of children talking. The two start at the top floor an off-limits area converted over to a flat where the two elderly women (lesbians?) who founded the school live. The school is large, extremely unorganized and seems severely understaffed, there are hundreds of children coming and going at any given time and many, many rooms to search.Īnn calls up Stephen, who promptly drives over to help her scour the school. During that time, a frustrated German cook - who was supposed to check in on Bunny while she was in the 'First Day Room' - has quit.

The headmistress was off getting dental work done, so her inexperienced underling Elvira Smollett ( Anna Massey) was put in charge for the day. Actually, no one who works there even remembers seeing her, period. Problem is, she's nowhere to be found and no one who works there seems to know where she is. After a trip to the market, a flustered Ann heads back to the school to pick up her little girl. While there, she meets her eccentric new landlord Horatio Wilson ( Noel Coward), a poet, playwrite, singer and alcoholic who carries his beloved chihuahua Samantha around with him everywhere. Ann drops Bunny off at a new school / day care ('The Little People's Garden School') and goes about meeting with the moving people and trying to get her things unpacked and organized.

Unwed single mother Ann Lake ( Carol Lynley) and her four-year-old daughter Bunny arrive from the United States to come stay with her brother Stephen ( Keir Dullea) in England.

Bunny Lake Is Missing by Evelyn Piper