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Experiment in Terror

Screening on Film
Directed by Blake Edwards.
With Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers.
US, 1962, 35mm, black & white, 123 min.

The stunning title sequence of Experiment in Terror distills the purest essence of San Francisco into an extended scene of Lee Remick driving her convertible over the Golden Gate Bridge at night, accompanied by Henry Mancini’s presciently ominous theme music. The film’s gripping narrative of an obsessive stalker immediately springs into action and brings onto the scene Glenn Ford as the dogged FBI agent determined to crack the case. Blake Edwards matches the at times improbable thriller, based on a popular novel, with a series of spectacular San Francisco set pieces including Fisherman’s Wharf and Candlestick Park, the original but now demolished home of the San Francisco Giants.

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