![]() ![]() The marvelously significant Set design that placed the narrative down in the center of the proper mood was done by Alan Roderick Jones and Peter James. Derek York did outstanding editing with art direction by Ray Simm. The incredible composer/conductor John Barry ( Day of the Locust 1975, Somewhere in Time 1980) wrote the music for the film. Gerry Turpin received a BAFTA nomination for his stunningly riveting Cinematography. Séance on a Wet Afternoon 1964 is based on the novel by Mark McShane. And changed certain things and eventually as I say, I managed to get Kim Stanley.” And then I sat down and rewrote another version. Now had we got away with that it would have been an absolute trail blazer of a movie in 1962, I offered it to Alec Guinness and Tom Courtney and Tom said yes and after a month Guinness said no. And you start with a blank sheet of paper and I had trouble writing it and at one point… I don’t think I told this to many people, we couldn’t as I say, ‘get it cast’ So I turned it into a burnt out homosexual case, that the medium became a sort of Maurice Woodruff who was living with a young man and it was sort of burnt out. “I was counting up the other day, I think I’ve written about 68 screenplays in my career not all of which have reached the screen but which I’ve actually written. ![]() In the same interview Bryan Forbes talks about his original conception for the screenplay. In an interview Forbe’s recalls, ” It was a paperback written by an Australian, a very good paperback but it had something we couldn’t use because in the book, I believe the child was killed and we weren’t going to go down that way.” Forbes actually adds a slight spin on McShane’s novel by the way he introduces the presence of the Savage’s dead son Arthur. Richard Attenborough was co-producer on the film as well. Séance on a Wet Afternoon 1964 is an astonishing film by British actor/director/screenwriter Bryan Forbes ( Whistle Down the Wind (1961) The L-Shaped Room (1962) King Rat (1965) The Wrong Box (1966) The Whisperers (1967) Deadfall (1968) The Raging Moon (1971) The Stepford Wives 1975) Forbes who also penned the screenplay was only nominated for a BAFTA but actually won the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the 1965 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. As part of my double feature for Furious Cinema’s: Scenes of the Crime Blog-a-thon. ![]()
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