Secret Ceremony (1968) | |
| Director(s) | Joseph Losey |
| Producer(s) | John Heyman, Norman Priggen |
| Top Genres | Drama, Thriller/Suspense |
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Secret Ceremony (1968) was a Drama - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Joseph Losey and produced by John Heyman and Norman Priggen.
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By RBuccicone on Nov 11, 2010 From MacGuffin MoviesSecret Ceremony (1968) ???? I almost wanted to give this movie a “What the F—?” rating because I think I might be traumatized for life after this one. I’ve categorized?Secret Ceremony?as both drama and horror because frankly I could not figure out if this was supposed?to be f... Read full article
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Cenci:
What are you doing in my mother's clothes? Get out!
Cenci: You let nanny and the cook go.
Leonora: I did?
Cenci: Fired them ruthlessly.
Leonora: [Describing her attempted suicide, to Cenci] "You'll be sorry when I'm dead, Bernard," I said to myself. "It may be a mortal sin, but it'll break your lousy heart, Bernard," I said to myself. I dressed up in all my finery, I even had my hair done up in curls. I set the table for two, with candles... and I swallowed every goddamned thing I could lay my hands on: aspirin, disprin, veganin, codeine, the lot. I lay down on the sofa, the music was playing, I drifted off down a cool river toward the sea... if ya' gotta' go, that's the way to do it. Like in a poem. Except, I became violently sick. I staggered out to the loo. I could hardly make it. I started to go blind. I was puking like a drunken sailor. I slipped and fell and I broke my bloody hip. And that's how he found me. Do you know what Bernard said to me?
Leonora: [Chuckles ruefully, then mockingly imitates Bernard with a silly voice] You could have killed yourself, honey.
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Cenci: You let nanny and the cook go.
Leonora: I did?
Cenci: Fired them ruthlessly.
Leonora: [Describing her attempted suicide, to Cenci] "You'll be sorry when I'm dead, Bernard," I said to myself. "It may be a mortal sin, but it'll break your lousy heart, Bernard," I said to myself. I dressed up in all my finery, I even had my hair done up in curls. I set the table for two, with candles... and I swallowed every goddamned thing I could lay my hands on: aspirin, disprin, veganin, codeine, the lot. I lay down on the sofa, the music was playing, I drifted off down a cool river toward the sea... if ya' gotta' go, that's the way to do it. Like in a poem. Except, I became violently sick. I staggered out to the loo. I could hardly make it. I started to go blind. I was puking like a drunken sailor. I slipped and fell and I broke my bloody hip. And that's how he found me. Do you know what Bernard said to me?
Leonora: [Chuckles ruefully, then mockingly imitates Bernard with a silly voice] You could have killed yourself, honey.
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When the film aired on NBC several years later, it was not only heavily edited to sanitize some of the seamier sexual suggestions but also included newly shot footage (none involving any of the actors who appeared in the actual film), including a prologue and epilogue in which a psychiatrist character discussed the characters' failings and attempted to explain away the truncated film's many plot holes. Among other major changes was the profession of Elizabeth Taylor's character, who somehow morphed from a prostitute in the theatrical release to a wig model in the TV version.
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