Play Misty for Me [Blu-ray]

Director: Clint Eastwood

Overview

Clint Eastwood made his directorial bow portraying a nighttime disc jockey who becomes the target of an obsessed fan (Jessica Walter).

Product Details

Release Date:	11/10/2015
UPC:	0025192231872
Original Release:	1971
Rating:	R
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:43:00
Sales rank:	5,696

Special Features

Play it again... a look back at Play Misty for Me; The Beguiled, Misty, Don and Clint; Photograph montage; Clint Eastwood directs and acts; The evolution of a poster; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clint Eastwood	Dave
Jessica Walter	Evelyn
Donna Mills	Tobie
John Larch	Sergente McCallum
Jack Ging	Dr. Frank Dewan
Irene Hervey	Madge Brenner
James McEachin	Al Monte
Clarice Taylor	Birdie
Don Siegel	Murphy the Bartender,Murphy
Duke Everts	Jay Jay
George Fargo	Man
Mervin W. Frates	Locksmith
Tim Frawley	Deputy Sheriff
Otis Kadani	Policeman
Brit Lind	Anjelica,Anjelica
Paul E. Lippman	2nd Man
Jack Kosslyn	Cab Driver
Ginna Patterson	Madalyn
Malcolm Moran	Man in Window
Walter Spear	Officer
Johnny Otis	Himself
Don Hamilton	Bar Patron
Dee Barton	Composer

Technical Credits

Jo Heims

Dean Riesner

Jo Heims	Screenwriter
Dean Riesner	Screenwriter
Robert Daley	Producer
Jennings Lang	Producer
Waldon O. Watson	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Jerry Whittington	Sound Effects
Robert Martin	Sound/Sound Designer
Robert L. Hoyt	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Clint Eastwood's surprisingly effective directorial debut is a tense psychological thriller in the same vein as 1987's obsession thriller Fatal Attraction. Inspired by Don Siegel, who had directed him four times in the previous three years, Eastwood crafts gritty, precise, and unsettling action sequences well-suited to the material's Hitchcockian tone. Jessica Walters is appropriately eerie as the radio-show caller who voices the title request, and Eastwood gives his own performance a cool efficiency. At the time of the film's release, it was relatively rare for big-name stars to try their hand at directing; Misty would be the first of numerous off-and-on directorial efforts for the idol, who would achieve his greatest success as an actor-director with 1992's Oscar-winning Unforgiven.