Thursday is an EXTREMELY hectic night for us from 3-7. Cub scouts, piano practice and piano lessons is a little much for me to handle, but somehow we deal with it.

So after pracctice and scouts we came home, watched the Soup Nazi episode, Survivor and Apprentice. After that I finished "Play Misty for me".

Blog Review: Play Misty for me
IMDB review:


Play Misty for Me (1971)
Directed by
Clint Eastwood

Writing credits
Jo Heims (story)
Jo Heims ...
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Genre: Horror / Thriller (more)

Tagline: The scream you hear may be your own! (more)

Plot Outline: A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture. (more) (view trailer)

User Comments: Eastwood's powerful debut and one of the best suspense films of the 70's (more) Rk comments: WHATEVER!!!!

User Rating: 7.0/10 (2,914 votes)

Cast overview, first billed only:
Clint Eastwood .... David 'Dave' Garver
Jessica Walter .... Evelyn Draper
Donna Mills .... Tobie Williams
John Larch .... Sgt. McCallum
Jack Ging .... Frank Dewan
Irene Hervey .... Madge Brenner
James McEachin .... Al Monte
Clarice Taylor .... Birdie
Don Siegel .... Murphy (as Donald Siegel)
Duke Everts .... Jay Jay
George Fargo .... Man
Mervin W. Frates .... Locksmith
Tim Frawley .... Deputy Sheriff
Otis Kadani .... Policeman
Brit Lind .... Anjelica
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Runtime: 102 min / Portugal:96 min (TV version)
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification: Australia:M / Finland:K-16 / Norway:16 / Singapore:M18 / South Korea:18 / Spain:18 / Sweden:15 / UK:15 (video re-rating) (2002) / UK:18 (video rating) (1985) / UK:X (original rating) / USA:R / West Germany:18

Trivia: All filming was completed in 21 days. (more)

Goofs: Factual errors: The five-inch reel of audiotape that Dave Garver threads onto the reel-to-reel player before driving to Toby's home is only good for a few minutes of play, and would run out long before the final sequences. (more) RK COMMENTS: The night day sequences are WAY off at the end
Quotes: Evelyn: Careful! I might put your eye out. (more) RK comments: Evelyn: "Girl commits suicide in deejay's apartment - that wouldn't be very good publicity for someone in your....position."

Awards: Nominated for Golden Globe. (more) rk comments - must have been a slow year




User Comments:

3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Eastwood's powerful debut and one of the best suspense films of the 70's, 28 May 2002

Author: Mika Pykäläaho (bygis80@hotmail.com) from Järvenpää, Finland


In the early 70's Clint Eastwood was very anxious to direct a movie of his own and the producers gave him the opportunity to do so with one simple condition: he wouldn't be receiving a paycheck from his work. Eastwood accepted this offer eagerly, directed "Play Misty for me" and the rest is, as we all know, movie history. "Play Misty for me" is a modest little thriller but it's more effective than a thousand electric shocks. Plot is rather simple but quite spectacular and Clint had the talent to tell it in a real exciting, stylish, strong, gripping and entertaining way. If someone's claiming that the story could never happen in reality I can only answer that it's impossible for me to agree. I actually used to date a girl who was annoyingly lot like Jessica Walter's Evelyn. More realistic the movie feels like, more powerful the experience obviously is and to me this film was almost frightfully realistic. Acting is superb. Eastwood's delivers a fantastic performance as Dave Garver and Jessica Walter is insanely great. One of the most sympathetic details of "Play Misty for me" is the fact that Clint gave a small supporting role of Murphy the bartender to his dearest friend and mentor Don Siegel.

Siegel himself directed Clint in five movie classics: "Coogan's bluff", "Two mules for sister Sara", "The Beguiled", "Dirty Harry" and "Escape from Alcatraz". In the famous scene Dave Garver and Murphy are playing an absurd game called "Cry Bastion". Clint admitted in the DVD documentary that there's no such game at all - they were just fooling around and improvising the game while playing it and that makes the scene twice as amusing. I adore almost every moment of "Play Misty for me" but unfortunately somewhere in the middle of the film there's couple of totally unnecessary sequences. Other one is like an overromantic music video of a song "First time ever I saw your face" and afterwards there's a scene that makes the movie look more like a jazz festival documentary than a serious thriller and it needlessly breaks the excitement. Without those two scenes I would give "Play Misty for me" 10 out of 10. But now I'll have to settle with "only" 9/10. "Play Misty for me" started Eastwood's directorial career and it still remains to be one of the most powerful motion picture debuts acting director has ever made. It is such a terrific and marvelous suspense film it's almost touching to watch. This movie is an adorable classic and after 21 movies Clint has directed since, "Play Misty for me" has definitely place in the better half.

Rk's review: I think Mike might have a little to close to this movie to review it. Anyway, it WAS pretty good, story wise, but the acting was pretty bad, and Clint used every stereotypical line he could come up with while writing it. Also, he called everyone "man". It was really FULL of cheesy lines, but that's ok, the drama was real. The music was a little to funky and upbeat for a thriller though, it would have fit much better in a roller derby movie. Is Misty really a song? Watch it for yourself if you like cheesy 70's movies.