A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.
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By CinemaSerf
Things take rather a menacing turn for bank clerk "Kelly" (Lee Remick) when she is held by the scruff of the neck, in the dark, by a mysterious intruder. He claims he will not hurt her so long as she does what she is told - and that involves pinching $100,000 from her work. She's naturally terrified and starts to place call to the FBI but he manages to interrupt that call before she can impart much detail to "Ripley" (Glenn Ford). He's quite the detective, though, and soon his team have managed to make arms-length contact and are beginning to work with her to thwart the dastardly plan of this man, whilst keeping herself and her younger sister "Toby" (Stefanie Powers) safe. Blake Edwards keeps the pace of this effective as the determined "Kelly" proves to be no push-over and quite prepared to take risks as the GI-man discovers that she isn't the first candidate for the malevolent attentions of this shrewd, husky-sounding criminal. There's a strong chemistry between the two at the top of the bill and the story provides us with quite a few red herrings to take us to a denouement that reminded me a little of "The Blue Lamp" (1950). It's quite a tense cat and mouse drama that's well worth two hours.
