Play Misty for Me
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| Play Misty for Me | |
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 Play Misty for Me DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Clint Eastwood |
| Produced by | Robert Daley Jennings Lang |
| Written by | Jo Heims Dean Riesner |
| Starring | Clint Eastwood Jessica Walter Donna Mills John Larch |
| Music by | Dee Barton Ewan MacColl (song "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 3, 1971 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 102 min |
| Language | English |
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Play Misty for Me is a 1971 thriller film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The film was Eastwood's directorial debut.
Eastwood plays David "Dave" Garver, a radio disc jockey who becomes the target of Evelyn Draper, an obsessed female fan, played by Jessica Walter. Donna Mills also appeared as Garver's sometime girlfriend, Tobie.
The title comes from Draper's habit of phoning in to Garver's radio show and asking him to play the song "Misty".
The film paved the way for such later stalker films as Fatal Attraction. It is also notable for the use of location shooting in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where Eastwood has long made his home and where he would be elected Mayor on April 8, 1986 with 72% of the vote. The film also features Roberta Flack's recording of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."
[edit] Characters
- David "Dave" Garver - A radio disc jockey who is stuck in a bad situation when Evelyn Draper enters his life.
- Evelyn Draper - A female fan of Dave who enters his life and tries to force him into making her his girlfriend. She always asks him to play "Misty." Evelyn takes the name Annabel in order to become a roommate of Tobie so Evelyn can hold Tobie hostage. Evelyn took the name from the poem "Annabel Lee." Dave figures out "Annabel"'s identity after reading "Annabel Lee" while in the radio room; this causes Dave to call Tobie to warn her that her roommate is Evelyn, only to receive Evelyn's "invitation" to Tobie's house.
- Tobie Williams - Dave's sometime girlfriend.
- Sergeant McCallum - The policeman in Dave's town who assists him in getting out of Evelyn's stranglehold.
- Birdie - Dave's housekeeper, who suffers from the wrath of Evelyn. Birdie is injured after being stabbed many times.
[edit] Trivia
- The role of the bartender is played by Don Siegel, a friend of Eastwood and the director of films such as Dirty Harry.
- Play Misty For Me is the film showing at a movie theater seen at the beginning of Dirty Harry.
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