Secret Ceremony
Secret Ceremony is a 1968 British psychological horror thriller film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum. Based on the Argentine novel Ceremonia secreta by Marco Denevi, the film follows an indigent prostitute who meets a strange young girl who insists that she is her long-lost mother.
Plot
Leonora, a middle-aged prostitute, is despondent over the death of her daughter. Cenci, a lonely young woman, follows Leonora to the cemetery and strikes up a conversation with her, inviting Leonora to her home. Leonora is struck by the likeness between Cenci and her late daughter.
More details
| author | George Tabori Marco Denevi |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Joseph Losey |
| editor | Reginald Beck |
| genre | drama horror thriller |
| keywords | ceiling claim mentally unstable young woman |
| musicBy | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| producer | Norman Priggen |
| productionCompany | World Film Services |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | psychological horror |