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EXPERIMENT IN TERROR
Director : Blake Edwards
Cast : Lee Remick, Glenn Ford, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin
(Columbia, 1962) Rated: Not rated
DVD release date : 10 June 2003 by Erich Kuersten
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comment on this article Manless Blake Edwards is best known for his Pink Panther films, and the Bo Derek vehicle, Ten . These winky farces seemed dated even when he made them, like your father showing up in a '70s disco suit, leering at your girlfriends. Before that, Edwards directed Breakfast at Tiffany's and Experiment in Terror , a stark, paranoiac cop thriller, shot in moody black and white and featuring a great, schmaltz-free Henry Mancini. Here the leering is balanced with sympathy for a working girl heroine, Kelly Sherwood (Lee Remick), who is without boyfriend, husband, or even a budding romantic relationship with the FBI agent who protects her. Her vulnerability is the crux of the film, which burns with the low level sense of her constant peril. Her trouble begins as Kelly drives home one night to her San Francisco suburban house. In her garage, she is accosted by an unseen, asthmatic male suspect (Ross Martin, of | |
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