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| Year: | 1971 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Clint Eastwood |
| Genre: | 'Women are all mad' themed thriller |
| Starring: | Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067588/ |
| Tagline: | The scream you hear may be your own! |
| Favourite line: | "I hope Dave likes what he sees when he gets here. Because that's what he's taking to Hell with him! " |
Well now, the message of this movie appears to be that all women are mental, which is clearly true.
Clint Eastwood directs and stars as a minor celebrity DJ, hosting a late night music show. A woman calls most evenings and asks him to play a song called Misty, which he duly does. One evening, after work, he stops for a drink at a local bar and meets a beautiful woman. They go back to his, where she reveals that she is the Misty caller.
What the hell, he thinks. Bit weird, but I'll sleep with her anyway.
After a night of passion, which both agreed beforehand would be a one off, no strings attached fling, she seems intent on embroiling herself in his life: turning up unannounced with groceries, hanging around outside the bar waiting for him to come out, following him around when a former flame shows up. And she's the jealous type too, and it's not long before she's wielding a knife and going psycho on his ass.
Gripping stuff, though massively dated, this can be viewed as something of a precursor to Fatal Attraction.
Clint is great as the confused and annoyed object of the lunatics affections, and Jessica Walters is convincing as a maniacal femme fatale.
The pace drops radically for fifteen minutes or so before the finale, which is why this loses a mark but still, this is a tense thriller indeed.
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