Play Misty for Me

Play Misty for Me marked Clint Eastwood's debut as a director, and it gave him the then-unusual opportunity to play a regular contemporary guy in a thriller about sex, obsession, and stalking. Eastwood's Dave Garver is a self-centered California jazz disc jockey struggling with the idea of ...more

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 ...more