| Play Misty for Me | |
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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") |
| Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
| Editing by | Carl Pingitore |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 3, 1971 (U. Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker. Robert Daley (born 1930 in New York City New York -) is an American novelist Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker. Jessica Walter (born January 31 1941) is an American Emmy Award -winning actress who is perhaps best known for her role as Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller on December 11 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress perhaps best John Larch ( October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American Film and Television Actor. Dee Barton ( 18 September 1937 - 3 December 2001) was an American Film score composer noted for his horror-esque style Ewan MacColl ( 25 January, 1915 - 22 October, 1989) was a British Folk singer, Songwriter, Socialist Bruce Surtees ( 27 July 1937, Los Angeles, California USA is an Academy Award and Emmy Award nominated American Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. S. release) |
| Running time | 102 min. |
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| Language | English |
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Play Misty for Me is a 1971 psychological thriller film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, in his directorial debut. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The year 1971 in film involved some significant events Events February 8 - Bob Dylan 's hour long documentary Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the wide-ranging thriller genre A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker. The original music score was composed by Dee Barton. Dee Barton ( 18 September 1937 - 3 December 2001) was an American Film score composer noted for his horror-esque style
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Eastwood plays David "Dave" Garver, a radio disc jockey who becomes the target of Evelyn Draper, an obsessed female fan, played by Jessica Walter. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Jessica Walter (born January 31 1941) is an American Emmy Award -winning actress who is perhaps best known for her role as Donna Mills plays his sometime girlfriend, Tobie Williams. Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller on December 11 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress perhaps best The title comes from Draper's habit of phoning in to Garver's radio show and asking him to play the classic Erroll Garner ballad "Misty". Erroll Louis Garner ( June 15 1921 &ndash January 2 1977) was an American Jazz Pianist and Composer " Misty " is a Jazz standard written in 1954 by the pianist Erroll Garner.
The film paved the way for later stalker films such as Fatal Attraction, particularly those with a female antagonist, and also those where the villain appeared to have died prematurely. Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend Affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes 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. Carmel-by-the-Sea, usually called simply Carmel, is a small town endowed with a rich artistic history situated on the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey Additional scenes were shot at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September 1970, featuring jazz greats Johnny Otis, Cannonball Adderley, and future Weather Report founder Joe Zawinul. Johnny Otis (born John Alexander Veliotes on December 29, 1921 in Vallejo California) is an American Blues Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley ( September 15 1928 – August 8 1975) was a Jazz alto saxophonist of Weather Report was an influential Jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining Jazz and Latin jazz with Art music, Josef Erich Zawinul ( July 7 1932 &ndash September 11 2007) was a Jazz keyboardist and Composer.
The film features a romantic montage backed by Roberta Flack's recording of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Roberta Flack (born February 10, 1937) is an American Singer-songwriter and Musician who is notable in the areas of Jazz " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " is a 1957 Folk song written by Ewan MacColl for his wife Peggy Seeger. "