Play Misty for Me (1971)
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's first film as a director is a good one with adequate suspense and some timely shocks to keep the story moving. He plays a disc jockey plagued by a female fan who loves him to death... See FATAL ATTRACTION for an interesting comparison. Features the Roberta Flack song "The First... Clint Eastwood's first film as a director is a good one with adequate suspense and some timely shocks to keep the story moving. He plays a disc jockey plagued by a female fan who loves him to death... See FATAL ATTRACTION for an interesting comparison. Features the Roberta Flack song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging
DVD Info
Release:
Sep 18, 2001
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
Additional Release Material:
- Documentary
- Introduction - 1. Clint Eastwood - Director
- Featurette
- Trailers
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Production Notes
- Biographies - 1. Cast & Crew
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Reviews
The star chose to cut his teeth on this small-scale movie, and the result -- although inevitably dated by its terrible clothes and period ambience -- stands up well but only as good late night television viewing.
Much of the credit must go to Jessica Walter for her outstanding performance which somehow manages to be chilling while at the same time sympathetic.
For that 80% of the film which constitutes the story, the structure and dialog create a mood of nervous terror which the other 20% nearly blows away.
Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director, and the project is remarkable in its self-effacing dedication to getting the craft right.
Clint's direction is sometimes shaky but usually assured, and he gets a bold performance from Jessica Walter.
The Man With No Name faces a whole lot of pain in Clint's thrilling directorial debut.
Un suspense qui profita abondamment de la largesse d'esprit du cinéma américain de l'époque, peut-être même un peu trop...
There is no purpose to a suspense thriller, I suppose, except to involve us, scare us, to give us moments of vicarious terror. Play Misty for Me does that with an almost cruel efficiency.
Em seu filme de estréia como diretor, Eastwood troca a tensão pelo susto fácil a partir da segunda metade da trama, errando ainda no longo e embaraçoso ‘interlúdio musical’.
For his directorial debut, Clint Eastwood opted to make this relatively straightforward but hopelessly dated Fatal Attraction clone (er, precursor).
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