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Cry Terror!

  • 19581958
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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Cry Terror! (1958)
  • Crime
  • Film-Noir
  • Thriller
Duped by former army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time-bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb-threats to extort money from airlines.Duped by former army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time-bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb-threats to extort money from airlines.Duped by former army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time-bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb-threats to extort money from airlines.
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
1.2K
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  • Director
    • Andrew L. Stone
  • Writer
    • Andrew L. Stone
  • Stars
    • James Mason
    • Rod Steiger
    • Inger Stevens
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  • Director
    • Andrew L. Stone
  • Writer
    • Andrew L. Stone
  • Stars
    • James Mason
    • Rod Steiger
    • Inger Stevens
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    • 27User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Cry Terror! (1958)
    James Mason, Terry Ann Ross, and Inger Stevens in Cry Terror! (1958)
    Rod Steiger in Cry Terror! (1958)
    Cry Terror! (1958)
    Angie Dickinson, Jack Klugman, and Rod Steiger in Cry Terror! (1958)
    James Mason in Cry Terror! (1958)
    Angie Dickinson in Cry Terror! (1958)
    Neville Brand and Inger Stevens in Cry Terror! (1958)
    Cry Terror! (1958)
    James Mason and Rod Steiger in Cry Terror! (1958)
    James Mason, Angie Dickinson, and Jack Klugman in Cry Terror! (1958)
    James Mason in Cry Terror! (1958)

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    James Mason
    James Mason
    • Jim Molneras Jim Molner
    Rod Steiger
    Rod Steiger
    • Paul Hoplinas Paul Hoplin
    Inger Stevens
    Inger Stevens
    • Mrs. Joan Molneras Mrs. Joan Molner
    Neville Brand
    Neville Brand
    • Steveas Steve
    Angie Dickinson
    Angie Dickinson
    • Eileen Kellyas Eileen Kelly
    Kenneth Tobey
    Kenneth Tobey
    • Agent Frank Coleas Agent Frank Cole
    Jack Klugman
    Jack Klugman
    • Vince, a thugas Vince, a thug
    Jack Kruschen
    Jack Kruschen
    • F.B.I. Agent Charles Popeas F.B.I. Agent Charles Pope
    Carleton Young
    Carleton Young
    • Roger Adamsas Roger Adams
    Barney Phillips
    Barney Phillips
    • Dan Pringleas Dan Pringle
    Harlan Warde
    Harlan Warde
    • Bert, Operativeas Bert, Operative
    Ed Hinton
    • Operativeas Operative
    Chet Huntley
    Chet Huntley
    • Selfas Self
    Roy Neal
    • Selfas Self
    Jonathan Hole
    Jonathan Hole
    • Airline Executiveas Airline Executive
    William Schallert
    William Schallert
    • Hendersonas Henderson
    Portland Mason
    • Patty's Friend on Schoolbusas Patty's Friend on Schoolbus
    Mae Marsh
    Mae Marsh
    • Woman in Elevator (replaced by Marjorie Bennett)as Woman in Elevator (replaced by Marjorie Bennett)
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    • Director
      • Andrew L. Stone
    • Writer
      • Andrew L. Stone
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    Storyline

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    Yesterday Jim Molner was an ordinary guy. Today he's a desperate man, frantically trying to save himself and his family, held hostage by a demented terrorist who's demanding $500,000 not to detonate a bomb he's planted on a domestic airliner. —Anonymous
    • fbi federal bureau of investigation
    • child hostage
    • mad bomber
    • extortion
    • ransom
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    • Taglines
      • M-G-M's masterpiece of excitement!
    • Genres
      • Crime
      • Film-Noir
      • Thriller
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      • Not Rated
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    • Trivia
      While filming a scene in a subway tunnel, Inger Stevens and Rod Steiger were nearly asphyxiated by carbon monoxide fumes. Steiger said years later that when they were being given oxygen, Stevens tried to refuse it. She said at the time she wanted to die; Steiger and the crew had to convince her otherwise. Years later on April 30, 1970, when Ms. Stevens was only 35 years old, she died of an overdose.
    • Goofs
      The $500,000 would equal 25,000 $20 bills and would weigh about 55 pounds. In bulk, it would be the equivalent of 11 reams of 20# copy paper. It would be too large to fit into the flimsy dress box and Joan could not carry it so easily.

    User reviews27

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    Improbable story with great cast
    Although this is one improbable story a great cast moves Cry Terror along. In watching this I suggest you do not take a bathroom break as you'll miss some kind of thrilling moment.

    James Mason is a TV repairman with wife Inger Stevens and little daughter Terry Ann Ross and during the late war he was in underwater demolition with Rod Steiger. Steiger comes to Mason with a proposition that he build some kind of triggering device that they can sell to the Navy. Only Steiger puts it on some bombs and is making extortion threats against an airline run by Carlton Young.

    Now that he's got Mason implicated in his extortion scheme Steiger takes Mason and family hostage and he has Stevens go to collect the payoff. She gives as much information as she can to FBI agent Kenneth Tobey and without following her, the FBI races against time to catch Steiger and his gang before they do some grievous harm to the airlines and Mason's family.

    Mason and Steiger are a great pair of leads and a contrasting study in acting styles just like Steiger and Humphrey Bogart were in The Harder They Fall. Stevens gives one of her best performances on the big screen as the frightened wife.

    Steiger's accomplices are quite a study in low lives. Jack Klugman as a punk, Neville Brand as drug addicted sex criminal, and psycho nymphomaniac Angie Dickinson are some real criminal specimens. They give good competition to the leads.

    It's an improbable story, but the tension never lets up the second that Steiger takes the hostages. Those last three minutes or so will stay with you forever as they did with me when I first saw Cry Terror several decades ago.
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    • bkoganbing
    • Feb 4, 2015

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 2, 1958 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Third Rail
    • Filming locations
      • Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
    • Production company
      • Andrew L. Stone Productions
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    • Budget
      • $482,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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