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Storyline
Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent Ripley. Written by
Will Gilbert
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Taglines:
Terror ... Tension ... Almost More Than The Heart Can Bear !
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Trivia
The date on the ticket for the baseball game at Candlestick Park was August 18, 1961. The final score was Giants 2, Dodgers 1.
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Goofs
There are official photos of President Eisenhower and President Kennedy in different government offices. However, this picture was filmed in 1961 (license plate stickers indicate as much), during a transition period from the Eisenhower to the Kennedy administration, so it is quite possible that there were portraits of both in some places. There were also some 48-star flags shown in some scenes; sometimes those in authority didn't get to making changes as quickly as today.
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Quotes
Garland Humphrey 'Red' Lynch:
Your sister's all right.
Toby Sherwood:
You said she was dying.
Garland Humphrey 'Red' Lynch:
I had to find some way to get you here. Take off your clothes. You want me to take them off for you?
Toby Sherwood:
[
shakes her head]
Garland Humphrey 'Red' Lynch:
Then take them off.
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Crazy Credits
The end credits only list one person, the actor who played the villain, followed by "The End"
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Connections
Referenced in
The Party Revolution (2004)
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Soundtracks
"Listen to the Mockingbird"
(uncredited)
Music by
Richard Milburn
Played by the stadium organist
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There are so many things to praise about this frightening little picture. The performances are uniformly excellent. San Francisco is captured in a 40 year old time capsule yet the fear and terror are as vivid in 2002 as they must have been in 1962. Ross Martin is an able and elusive villain with some ability to engender loyalty in friends. As has been noted, the terror visited on Lee Remick's character Kelly Sherwood, is real and intense and persistent. In an age that equates terror with fanaticism and major special effects, all that this little noir required was poor breathing, a telephone, skilled camera work, great performances and a slam-bang script. Bravo.