By David in TN
friday, october 27, 2023 at 11:45:00 p.m. edt
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Blake Edwards’ Experiment in Terror (1962), with Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stephanie Powers and Ross Martin.
Experiment in Terror is out of the Noir cycle, being made in 1962. It’s not listed in Film Noir Guide. Eddie Muller likes it because it takes place and was filmed in his home town of San Francisco.
A sadistic killer (Martin) uses a campaign of terror to force San Francisco bank teller (Remick) to steal $100,000 from the bank for him. She calls the FBI, who send a Special Agent (all FBI agents are called “Special Agent”) to take charge of the case. Glenn Ford plays the agent.
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"FRIENDS" STAR,MATTHEW PERRY DEAD AT 54
GRA:A funny show and Perry was a funny actor delivering the best lines usually.
(People)The actor, who was best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends, was found dead at a Los Angeles-area home on Saturday, TMZ reported, citing law enforcement sources. Law enforcement sources also confirmed Perry's death to the Los Angeles Times.
The outlet reported that Perry was found in a jacuzzi at the home, and no drugs were found at the scene.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told PEOPLE that officers responded to a call at Perry's address regarding the death of a male in his 50s, but would not confirm the deceased's identity.
TMZ was also told that there was no foul play involved, and their sources said first-responders were called to the residence for cardiac arrest.
Representatives for Perry did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
GRA:A lot of drugs Perry admitted to taking.He was in rough shape,so no surprise in one aspect,but still,it's too bad he couldn't handle success better.I believe he was in a movie with James Caan that was good for a few laughs.
--GRA
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Joseph M. Newman's Abandoned (1949) with Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Raymond Burr, Marjorie Rambeau, Will Kukuva, Mike Mazurki.
Film Noir Guide: "A small-town Pennsylvania girl (Storm) arrives in Los Angeles looking for her missing sister, who recently had an illegitimate baby (did that really happen in 1949?). Unfortunately, the sister turns up in the morgue and the baby disappeared."
"Storm and newspaper reporter O'Keefe, teamed up to find the killers, stumble across an infant-for-sale gang led by a pair of evil baby brokers (Rambeau and Kuluva). The amateur detectives turn over the information they have collected to a sympathetic cop (Chandler) who initiates a sting operation, using as bait a pregnant girl from a Salvation Army home and O'Keefe and Storm as potential adopters."
"Burr is terrific as usual, this time playing a shady but nervous P.I. ('I'd have been just as happy if we committed our murders in a state that doesn't have capital punishment'). There's only a little action, notably when Kuluva's goon (noir veteran Mazurki) takes on Burr, but it's still a fast-moving crime drama."
David in TN: Last week's Experiment in Terror was good, though overlong. Lee Remick (1935-1991) was a versatile actress who played a nice-girl bank teller this time. When Marilyn Monroe was fired from Something's Got to Give in 1962, Remick was to replace her as Monroe's clothes fit her. Monroe was rehired on Dean Martin's insistence, but OD'd in August 1962. In 1967, Bobby Kennedy went on a tour of Europe and supposedly met up with Lee Remick for a tryst in a Paris hotel.
In his outro, Eddie Muller regretted not having Lee Remick on before and asked his facebook and twitter followers if they would like to see Anatomy of a Murder (1959) on Noir Alley.
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