Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), the US one-sheet for Preminger's mystery about a mother whose small daughter vanishes. A child-shaped hole is torn out of a solid black square, so the girl appears only as her absence, and the word MISSING fades from black to gray as if it too is disappearing. Above it, a tiny figure hangs inside a stopwatch beside the tagline "No one admitted while the clock is ticking!" It is one of the purest examples of Bass building suspense from a gap rather than a picture.