Synopsis
A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.
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Cast
- Glenn FordJohn Ripley
- Lee RemickKelly Sherwood
- Stefanie PowersToby Sherwood
- Roy PooleBrad
- Ned GlassPopcorn
- Anita LooLisa Soong
- Patricia HustonNancy Ashton
- Gilbert GreenSpecial Agent
- Clifton JamesCapt. Moreno
- Al AvalonMan Who Picks Up Kelly
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out
After Carpenter and De Palma, it may seem a little dated; yet Edwards' classical feel for pure cinema remains unalloyed. - 80
The New Yorker
With Experiment in Terror, Edwards, working in the familiar genre of criminal depravity, does something that may well be, for Hollywood, unprecedented: he makes a virtual piece of film criticism in movie form. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Edwards' direction is effective, although he relies too heavily on overhead and boom shots to show his action scenes. - 75
Chicago Reader
Blake Edwards's 1962 film is largely a formal study, a good excuse to explore some offbeat locations in San Francisco (including Candlestick Park at the climax). Nice work, but Edwards has done better. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Blake Edwards' moody suspense thriller captures San Francisco from unexpected perspectives, starting with a dark drive with a perfect noirish Henry Mancini score across the Bay Bridge, and ending with then-new Candlestick Park. [08 Feb 2015, p.D6] - 63
Slant Magazine
Credit the film’s modest virtues to Edwards’s undeniable verve as a visual stylist. Still, with a running time slightly over two hours, Experiment in Terror is a bit too protracted to count as an unqualified success. - 60
The New York Times
It takes more than two hours to come to a solution of the problem in this film. They would do it in one hour on TV, and it would probably be every bit as good. - 50
Variety
The film treatment embraces a number of unnecessary character bits that merely extend the plot and, despite their striking individual reaction, deter from the suspense buildup.
