The Harrad Experiment

The Harrad Experiment
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 (1973-05-11)
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.

Contents 1 Cast 1.1 Cultural References 2 Harrad Summer 3 External links

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

(listed alphabetically, all uncredited)

• 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

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"

Harrad Summer

Harrad Summer
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.

Cast

• 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

External links

• The Harrad Experiment at the Internet Movie Database
• Harrad Summer at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ted Post 1950s The Peacemaker (1956) The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959) 1960s Hang 'Em High (1968) 1970s Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971) The Baby (1973) The Harrad Experiment (1973) Magnum Force (1973) Whiffs (1975) Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Good Guys Wear Black (1978) 1980s Nightkill (1980) Stagecoach (1986) 1990s The Human Shield (1991)