Secret Ceremony

Secret Ceremony (1968)

It's time to speak of unspoken things...

A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.

Date of release
1968-10-23
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (71)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director
Joseph Losey

Casting

Interesting facts

Secret Ceremony is a 1968 British psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum. Based on the 1960 novel Ceremonia secreta by Argentine author Marco Denevi, the film follows an indigent prostitute who meets a strange young girl who insists that she is her long-lost mother.

Production

The short story on which the film is based won a $5,000 prize in a competition run by Life en Español. It had already been filmed for Argentine television when it was optioned in 1963 by Dore Schary.

In an October 1969 interview with Roger Ebert, Mitchum claimed that the film's production was "in trouble" when he arrived and that his presence did not help.

The production budget for Secret Ceremony was between $2,450,000 and $3,173,212. The main location for the film was Debenham House in London. Other London locations were St Mary Magdalene Church in Paddington, the area around the Molyneux Monument in Kensal Green Cemetery and the junction of Chepstow Road and St Stephen's Mews in Paddington. The hotel and beach scenes were shot around the Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

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