1958..... 96 Minutes {CINEMASCOPE}

James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens, Jack Klugman

Director Andrew L. Stone, a stickler for realism, filmed Cry Terror in its entirety on location in New York, though some of the houses and apartments are given the back lot art-director touch. James Mason plays a television repairman coerced to participate in an extortion plot engineering by bespectacled criminal mastermind Rod Steiger. The villain wants to utilize Mason's technical expertise in rigging up a bomb on an airliner. To insure Mason's cooperation, Steiger's minions (among them Jack Klugman and Neville Brand) hold the repairman's wife (Inger Stevens) and children hostage. The wife manages to escape; she trips and falls on a subway track for a thrilling climax.