The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Don Siegel
- Murphy
- (as Donald Siegel)
Britt Lind
- Anjelica
- (as Brit Lind)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe first scene Clint Eastwood shot was his former director Don Siegel's cameo as Murph the bartender. As a joke, Eastwood made Siegel do eleven takes, then told the cameraman to put the film in the camera.
- GoofsWhen Evelyn creates a disturbance at Dave's business meeting with an executive from a San Francisco station, there is a close-up of the box containing the audition tape he originally sent to the station she runs. The return address reads Dave Garver, Radio K.M.R.L. (not K.R.M.L).
- Quotes
David 'Dave' Garver: Al, you ever find yourself being completely smothered by somebody?
Al Monte: Anybody I know?
David 'Dave' Garver: Yeah, you met her at my house the other day.
Al Monte: Ooooo - chicken delight! Well that's what I call some pretty good smotherin' cousin.
- Alternate versionsThe version shown on American commercial network TV had the entire "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" sequence re-shot to remove the sex scene. Instead, what was shown as the song played was simply scenes of Eastwood and Donna Mills walking in the forest. The very brief sex scene between Eastwood and Jessica Walter was also eliminated.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Terror in the Aisles (1984)
- SoundtracksMisty
Composed and Performed by Erroll Garner
Featured review
Eastwood's directorial debut is occasionally pedestrian, but he's helped by a solid script...
Too-careful shocker directed and starring Clint Eastwood involves a radio disc-jockey who gets seductive requests by telephone for the song "Misty"--he later meets the overly-friendly female fan and they share a fling, but she 'won't be ignored'. Tense thriller may have been the starting point for Adrian Lyne's "Fatal Attraction", though this one is far less slick. Sometimes an actor is so good in a role that it's impossible to see them as anyone else later in their career; such is the case with Jessica Walter, who nails this part of the psychotic woman--and seems to embody instability itself! Several scenes go on too long, the climax is so dark visually it is nearly incoherent, and there's a jazz festival interlude (and a romantic montage with Eastwood and Donna Mills) that feels like padding, but the central situation is unsettling, well-crafted and well-played. As for Walter, she had a tough time shaking off the affects left behind with this role, which of course is both pro and con. *** from ****
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Box office
- Budget
- $725,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,600,000
- Gross worldwide
- $10,600,000
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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