The Harrad Experiment

Infobox Film
name = The Harrad Experiment


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director = Ted Post
producer = Noel Marshall
Mel Sokolow
Dennis F. Stevens
writer = Novel:
Robert H. Rimmer
Screenplay:
Michael Werner
Ted Cassidy
starring = James Whitmore
Tippi Hedren
Don Johnson
B. Kirby Jr.
Laurie Walters
Victoria Thompson
music = Artie Butler
cinematography = Richard H. Kline
editing = Bill Brame
distributor = Cinema Arts Productions, Inc.
released = May 11, 1973
runtime = 95 minutes
country = USA
language = English
budget =
followed_by = "Harrad Summer" (1974)
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amg_id =
imdb_id = 0070157

"The Harrad Experiment" is a 1973 movie about a fictional Harrad College where the students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book 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 1960s and 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 in one of her first film roles.

Cast

* James Whitmore as Philip Tenhausen
* Tippi Hedren as Margaret Tenhausen
* Don Johnson as Stanley Cole
* B. Kirby Jr. as Harry Schacht
* 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

"Harrad Summer"

Infobox Film
name = Harrad Summer


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director = Steven Hilliard Stern
producer = Dennis F. Stevens
writer = Mort Thaw
Steve Zacharias
starring =
music = Patrick Williams
cinematography = Richard H. Kline
editing =
distributor = Cinema Arts Productions, Inc.
released = August 1974
runtime = 103 minutes
country = USA
language = English
budget =
Preceded_by = "The Harrad Experiment" (1973)
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0071597

"Harrad Summer" was a 1974 sequel 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