Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a 1943 novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, and Claude E. Carpenter were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. Hedy Lamarr's singing voice was dubbed by Paula Raymond. In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey... hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick keeps Allida, who he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their London town house, cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly psychiatrist Bailey takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.
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| Release date: | December 18, 1944 |
| Directed by: | Jacques Tourneur |
| Runtime: | 91 Minutes |
| Producer: | Warren B. Duff |
| Music by: | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography: | Tony Gaudio |
| Screenplay by: | Warren B. Duff, Margaret Carpenter |
| Genre: | Thriller |