Experiment in Terror

Name: Experiment in Terror
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: 1962-04-12
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 7.068

★ 7,1 /10 (133 Votes)

1962 EN 123 min

Overview

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.

Stream

Rent

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Release date

12/04/1962

Votes

133

Popularity

1.4

Terror... Tension... Almost More Than The Heart Can Bear

Genres

Thriller Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

123 min

Revenue

$1,400,000

Glenn Ford

John Ripley

Lee Remick

Kelly Sherwood

Stefanie Powers

Toby Sherwood

Roy Poole

Brad

Ned Glass

Popcorn

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Anita Loo

Lisa Soong

Patricia Huston

Nancy Ashton

Gilbert Green

Special Agent

Clifton James

Capt. Moreno

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Al Avalon

Man Who Picks Up Kelly

William Bryant

Chuck

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Dick Crockett

FBI Agent #1

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James Lanphier

Landlord

Ross Martin

Red Lynch

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Joanne Bahris

Tourist at Fishermans Wharf (uncredited)

James T. Callahan

FBI Agent (uncredited)

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Bob Carraher

Police Lieutenant (uncredited)

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Mario Cimino

Cook at The Hangout (uncredited)

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Fred Coby

FBI Agent (uncredited)

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Barbara Collentine

Janie (uncredited)

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George DeNormand

Bank Guard (uncredited)

Frederic Downs

Welk (uncredited)

Don Drysdale

Self (uncredited)

Harvey Evans

Dave (uncredited)

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Dennis Falt

High School Student (uncredited)

Harold Goodwin

Truck Driver (uncredited)

Claire Griswold

Peggy (uncredited)

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Warren Hsieh

Joey Soong (uncredited)

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Judee Morton

Louella Hendricks (uncredited)

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Helen Jay

Waitress (uncredited)

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Operation Terror. Experiment in Terror is directed by Blake Edwards and adapted to screenplay by Mildred and Gordon Gordon from their own novel called Operation Terror. It stars Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers and Ross Martin. Music is by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Philip H. Lathrop. Film begins with bank teller Kelly Sherwood (Remick) driving home through night time San Francisco, over head shots capturing the cityscape for backdrop purpose. Henry Mancini’s haunting soundtrack hovers over Kelly’s car in spectral fashion, until she arrives home in Twin Peaks and enters …

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Things take rather a menacing turn for bank clerk "Kelly" (Lee Remick) when she is held by the scruff of the neck, in the dark, by a mysterious intruder. He claims he will not hurt her so long as she does what she is told - and that involves pinching $100,000 from her work. She's naturally terrified and starts to place call to the FBI but he manages to interrupt that call before she can impart much detail to "Ripley" (Glenn Ford). He's quite the detective, though, and soon his team have managed to make arms-length contact and are beginning to work with her to thwart the dastardly plan of this …

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