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Name: Play Misty for Me
Released: 1971-8-28
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging

Play Misty for Me

R
1h 42m
1971

85%

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Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut with this contemporary thriller about psychotic obsession. Eastwood also takes the lead in the starring role as Dave Garver, a popular radio disc jockey who repeatedly receives on-air phone requests from a sexy female fan to "play Misty for me". When the woman, Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter), orchestrates a rendezvous with Dave at his favorite nightspot, the two begin a torrid affair. But when Dave decides to end the relationship, Evelyn's obsession turns to violence. Soon everything and everyone in Dave's life becomes a target for Evelyn's increasingly deadly campaign of terror. Beautifully photographed on location in Eastwood's hometown of Carmel, California, Play Misty for Me continues to be considered one of the great modern-day thrillers.

Director:

Clint Eastwood

Producer:

Robert Daley

Writer:

Jo Heims, Dean Riesner

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Irene Hervey, James McEachin, Clarice Taylor, Donald Siegel

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

85%

Critics Consensus: A coolly calculating psychological thriller that manages to scare the audience even if it is just using textbook thrills.

Reviews

Keith & the Movies

Keith Garlington

While it’s hardly (Eastwood's) best directed film, you get good tastes of the filmmaker he would become all throughout “Misty”.

Look, if you’re an up-and-coming actor directing a film for the first and possibly last time, why wouldn’t you devote 4.2% of the total running time to Donna Mills having sex with you under a waterfall?

The sexual politics may be terribly dated, and its portrayal of mental illness typically inaccurate, but there is a solid, old-fashioned potboiler at work here.

Misty is a very good thriller, showing that Eastwood had absorbed a great deal from the directors he'd worked for.

PLAY MISTY FOR ME is a cautionary tale for those who casually choose their lovers; it's a screeching shock to the system

November 19, 2020

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