Blake Edwards was a genius in this film. The opening garage scene where all you hear is the asthmatic breathing and never see Red's face is so suspenseful, as is the maddening mannequin scene where you know something sinister is in the room. You just don't know when it's going to show itself. Edwards made a terrifying film with very little violence shown. Of course, it helps he had great actors as well.
shareYes the garage scene was terrific, but I´d say the best part of the whole thing were actually the extremely moody opening 2-3 minutes of the title sequence giving a great vista of nightly San Francisco highways, following Remick´s character past the Twin Peaks sign to the marvellous theme by Mancini (which shoulda been put to greater use later on - it only seemed to crop up occasionally & for short spells). Later the thing lagged sometimes a bit and settled into a rather familiar and predictable thriller/police procedural territory. Good performances (especially Ross Martin) and overall an effective film though. 7,5/10.
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Agreed
shareThe beautiful noir cinematography played a huge part in it as well, the framing, use of shadow, closeups, and angles was master class stuff.
shareMight be my favorite film of Edwards'.
shareYep apparently Blake Edwards can do it all. This is a gem of a film I had never heard of - glad I got a chance to see it.
shareI wish today's movie producers & directors would take a cue from this movie. You can really build suspense and scare the hell out of people without gratuitous overt violence and bloodletting. Your mind can create much scarier monsters than any Hollywood special effects department can.
shareWell said.
shareRight you are
shareI agree 100% If only our current crop of Movie Directors had one tenth of the talent Blake Edwards has we would have better movies.
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