Terror... Tension... Almost More Than The Heart Can Bear
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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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20247/10
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 man, whilst keeping herself and her younger sister "Toby" (Stefanie Powers) safe. Blake Edwards keeps the pace of this effective as the determined "Kelly" proves to be no push-over and quite prepared to take risks as the GI-man discovers that she isn't the first candidate for the malevolent attentions of this shrewd, husky-sounding criminal. There's a strong chemistry between the two at the top of the bill and the story provides us with quite a few red herrings to take us to a denouement that reminded me a little of "The Blue Lamp" (1950). It's quite a tense cat and mouse drama that's well wor
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Jan 20148/10
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 her garage, things fall silent as she gets out the car. She senses she’s not alone, and she’s right. A man whose face is obscured grabs her and puts one hand over her mouth, he tells her in his asthmatic voice that he knows everything about her and her young sister, and that if she doesn’t do as she is told then pain, misery and death awaits them. She’s to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works, he will even cut her in for 20%, what a swell fella eh? It’s a brilliant opening, stylish film making meets a thematic atmosphere full of fear, tension and sexual menace. What follows is a superbly craf
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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
Crew
- Blake EdwardsDirector
- Gordon GordonScreenplay
- Mildred GordonScreenplay
- Gordon GordonNovel
- Mildred GordonNovel
- Philip H. LathropDirector of Photography
- Henry ManciniOriginal Music Composer
- Patrick McCormackEditor
- Blake EdwardsProducer
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