Blake Edwards died last night. I get the whole Breakfast at Tiffany's and Pink Panther thing. Loved Peter Gunn. I'll watch Victor Victoria, or even Micki & Maude on the right kind of day. But I think Blake hit a high note with Experiment in Terror. It's a shadow-binge late noir thriller about a bank teller in San Francisco that is taken hostage in her own home by a wheezing strangler who tries to coerce her into robbing her employer. Big emphasis on sound design and the Mancini soundtrack was perfect. Who knew asthma could be so creepy?
I've never even heard of Experiment in Terror but now I want to see it.
ReplyDeleteI think Edwards is underrated. I even liked "10" and Darling Lili. Oddly enough though I found The Pink Panther to be heavy going.
It looks absolutely fantastic. And it's fairly violent for the time. I dug it.
ReplyDeleteThe Pink Panther series kind of lost me. Sellers just didn't seem that interested after the first installment. But was he ever?
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