The Harrad Experiment (1973)

Director:

Ted Post

Writers:

Robert H. Rimmer (novel)
Michael Werner (screenplay) ...

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Harrad College... where free, liberated relations between coed students are encouraged!

Plot:

At Harrad College, where controversial coed living situations are established, the students are forced...

Plot Keywords:

College | Sexuality | Virgin | Diner | Tree Hugger

Cast

James Whitmore	...	Philip Tenhausen
Tippi Hedren	...	Margaret Tenhausen
Don Johnson	...	Stanley Cole
Bruno Kirby	...	Harry Schacht (as B. Kirby Jr.)
Laurie Walters	...	Sheila Grove
Victoria Thompson	...	Beth Hillyer
Elliott Street	...	Wilson
Robert Middleton	...	Sidney Bower
Billy Sands	...	Jack
Sharon Ullrick	...	Barbara (as Sharon Taggart)
Maggie Wellman	...	Cynthia
Michael Greene	...	Yoga Instructor
Ron Kolman	...	Evan
Eric Server	...	Workman
Robert C. Ross	...	Workman

Runtime:

97 min | UK:91 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Iceland:16 | USA:R | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Pasadena, California, USA

Company:

Cinema Arts Productions Inc.

Trivia:

To the chagrin of the producers and the director, the marijuana plants in the picture turned out to be real. The property master denied any culpability, leaving the producer to conclude that one of the actors must have made a last-minute substitute.

Goofs:

Continuity: Stanley comes in after jogging and his green shirt is obviously sweaty on the back. He surprises Barbara and Stanley in the room and punches Stanley in the face. Stanley goes into the bathroom and when Stanley follows, there is obviously no sweat marks.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Harrad Summer (1974)

Soundtrack:

Go Gently

A failed attempt to bring a then-classic to the screen

My friends and I read the HARRAD EXPERIMENT by Robert Rimmer as nervous teenagers in the early 70s. The book was a manifesto for sexual awareness and responsibility, a call for a rational development of sexual activity on a cultural basis. Of course at the time, we were just looking for the hot parts....

Anyway, the movie makers were given the thankless task of transforming the book and apparently cound not decide whether to make it a polemic or a soap opera. Worse, the plot they chose betrays the format of the book, where the narrative was shared equally buy two men and two women. The film concentrates on Johnson's character, maligning him and transforming the film into his character's unwilling education in sexual responsibility.

Bruno Kirby doing full frontal nudity? Brrrrr..........