Experiment in Terror

Twilight Time

Experiment in Terror (1962) is director/producer Blake Edwards's chilling excursion into atmospheric neo-noir focusing on a San Francisco working girl (Lee Remick) stalked by a wheezing psychopath (Ross Martin) intent on forcing her to rob the bank where she works - or else. Fearing for the safety of her younger sister (Stefanie Powers) even more than for her own our heroine pluckily makes secret contact with an FBI agent (Glenn Ford) hoping to foil the psycho before he can carry out his sinister threats. Featuring lush black-and-white cinematography by Philip Lathrop and a smoky jazz-inflected score from Henry Mancini available here as an isolated track.