Play Misty for Me

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Play Misty for Me
Play Misty for Me movie poster
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")
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees
Editing by	Carl Pingitore
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	November 3, 1971 (U.S. release)
Running time	102 min
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

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 plays his sometime girlfriend, Tobie Williams. 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 later stalker films such as Fatal Attraction. It is also notable for its use of location shooting, mostly in the area of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where Eastwood has long made his home, and where he was elected Mayor in 1986.

The film features a romantic montage backed by 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.
• When the Comedy Central channel showed Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the mid-1990's, they encouraged viewers to vote online for which episode they wished to see and they called it "Play MiSTie for Me".

[edit] External link

• Play Misty for Me at the Internet Movie Database

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