{"id":13105,"date":"2019-08-12T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13105"},"modified":"2019-08-10T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T23:42:16","slug":"experiment-in-terror-1962-blake-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13105","title":{"rendered":"Experiment in Terror (1962, Blake Edwards)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Remick (of <em>Wild River<\/em> and <em>A Face in the Crowd<\/em>, great in this) is a banker who gets phoned up by a psycho and threatened into stealing some money, in a 5-minute close-range opening scene with no music.  Warned not to contact police, she calls Glenn Ford anyway, and he investigates, talking with Patricia Huston, who ends up dead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/experimentinterror2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Patricia is discovered by the landlord, &#8220;Mr. Curry&#8221; in my notes but maybe I just wrote that cuz he looks like Tim Curry:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/experimentinterror1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A stoolie named Popcorn gives Glenn some leads, the killer&#8217;s girlfriend refuses to cooperate and says he&#8217;s a good man who pays for her son&#8217;s medical treatments.  The baddie eventually kidnaps Lee&#8217;s sister Toby (Stefanie Powers, future star of <em>Hart to Hart<\/em>) to guarantee compliance, and arranges the handoff at Candlestick Park during a Giants\/Dodgers game, where things go wrong for him, and he&#8217;s gunned down by Glenn Ford on the pitcher&#8217;s mound.<\/p>\n<p><em>The baddie also sneaks up on Lee in a hallway disguised as an old woman&#8230; I forget why:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/experimentinterror3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Written by The Gordons, who are best known for <em>That Darn Cat!<\/em>, and scored by Henry Mancini, the opening theme sounding like a warmup for <em>The Pink Panther<\/em> the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Remick (of Wild River and A Face in the Crowd, great in this) is a banker who gets phoned up by a psycho and threatened into stealing some money, in a 5-minute close-range opening scene with no music. Warned not to contact police, she calls Glenn Ford anyway, and he investigates, talking with Patricia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,764,627,2555],"class_list":["post-13105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-baseball","tag-blake-edwards","tag-lee-remick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13112,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105\/revisions\/13112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}