Experiment in Terror
1962
**
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin, Roy Poole, Ned Glass, Anita Loo, Patricia Huston, Gilbert Green, Clifton James
Blake Edwards' black and white thriller has a terrific start. A young woman drives through San Francisco to the tune of Henry Mancini's lovely score and arrives in her home, where a mysterious asthmatic criminal threatens to kill her and her younger sister unless she steals $100,000 from the bank in which she works. When she contacts the FBI, the film turns into a long, dull, and dumb procedural filled with red herrings. Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon scripted from their 1961 novel Operation Terror.
