The Harrad Experiment
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| Directed by | Ted Post |
| Produced by | Noel Marshall Mel Sokolow Dennis F. Stevens |
| Written by | Novel: Robert H. Rimmer Screenplay: Michael Werner Ted Cassidy |
| Starring | James Whitmore Tippi Hedren Don Johnson Bruno Kirby Laurie Walters Victoria Thompson |
| Music by | Artie Butler |
| Cinematography | Richard H. Kline |
| Editing by | Bill Brame |
| Distributed by | Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
| Release date(s) | May 11, 1973 |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Harrad Experiment (1973) is a movie about a fictional Harrad College where the students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this movie deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution which took place in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The movie stars James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren as the married couple who run the school, and includes a young Don Johnson as one of the students who tries to go beyond the rules, and Melanie Griffith (Hedren's real life daughter) in one of her first film roles.
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[edit] Cast
- James Whitmore as Philip Tenhausen
- Tippi Hedren as Margaret Tenhausen
- Don Johnson as Stanley Cole
- Bruno Kirby as Harry Schacht (as B. Kirby Jr.)
- Laurie Walters as Sheila Grove
- Victoria Thompson as Beth Hillyer
- Elliott Street as Wilson
- Robert Middleton as Sidney Bower
- Billy Sands as Jack
- Sharon Ullrick (née Taggart) as Barbara
- Maggie Wellman as Cynthia
- Michael Greene as Yoga Instructor
- Ron Kolman as Evan
- Eric Server as Workman
- Robert C. Ross as Workman
- Rest of cast
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- Ted Cassidy as the diner patron
- Melanie Griffith as an extra
- Gregory Harrison as a student
- Melody Patterson as Jeannie
- Dennis F. Stevens as the heckler at the Ice House
- The Ace Trucking Company
- George Memmoli
- Michael Mislove
- Mary Elaine Monti
- Bill Saluga
- Fred Willard
[edit] Cultural References
In The Wonder Years fourth-season episode "Growing Up", Kevin's hippie older sister is seen reading a copy of The Harrad Experiment during the family's vacation.
In the Seinfeld episode "The Label Maker", George Costanza describes his girlfriend's having a male roommate as a "bizarre Harrad Experiment"
[edit] Harrad Summer
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| Directed by | Steven Hilliard Stern |
| Produced by | Dennis F. Stevens |
| Written by | Mort Thaw Steve Zacharias |
| Music by | Patrick Williams |
| Cinematography | Richard H. Kline |
| Distributed by | Cinema Arts Productions, Inc. |
| Release date(s) | August 1974 |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Harrad Summer was a 1974 sequel directed by Steven Hilliard Stern in which Stanley, Sheila, Harry, and Beth spend the following summer together to get to know their families.
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- Robert Reiser as Stanley Kolasukas
- Laurie Walters as Sheila Grove
- Richard Doran as Harry Schacht
- Victoria Thompson as Beth Hillyer
- Emmaline Henry as Margaret Tonhausen
- Bill Dana as Jack Schacht
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