Cri de terreur

Original title: Cry Terror!

1958
Approved
1h 36m

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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.

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6.7/10

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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, who had a history of suicide attempts, was only 35 years old, she died of a drug overdose.

Goofs
The Chrysler convertible has what looks like California plates (MLK 050) when Joan Molner first drives the car, but as she is approaching her destination, it has New York plates (7C 5976).

Quotes
[first lines]
Roger Adams: [in office meeting] But we must bear in mind that, with our business as highly competitive, we can't take a second...
Adams' Secretary: [after opening mail, disturbed by one letter, she goes into Adams' office] I'm sorry, Mr. Adams - I think this is something you'll want to read immediately.

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Featured 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.