Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards - 1962)
By chance I
read a favorable mention of this picture somewhere and decided to check it out.
I was not disappointed; the opening credit
sequence was enough to convince me. Lee Remick driving through the night with San
Francisco in the background accompanied by the soothing score by Henry Mancini.
Memorable!
The film is
an efficiently told detective story where Glenn Ford gets to play the hero. Black
and white photography has never looked so good and there is a lot of unusual
angles and creative camerawork. The aesthetics is definitely Film Noir, but the
world that the film depicts is not so dark and sordid that it qualifies to be
placed on that shelf. If one had to insist on a Noir approach I’d label this
one as a “transitional piece”.
Watched on
anamorphic DVD in the Columbia Classics series.
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