Experiment in Terror

Name: Experiment in Terror
Released: April 12, 1962
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 69

1962

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Release Date: April 12, 1962

Summary: A man with an asthmatic voice telephones bank clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.

Runtime: 123 min

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Richard Brody

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

After Carpenter and De Palma, it may seem a little dated; yet Edwards' classical feel for pure cinema remains unalloyed. Read full review

Peter Hartlaub

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]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Edwards' direction is effective, although he relies too heavily on overhead and boom shots to show his action scenes. Read full review

Budd Wilkins

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. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

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