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12 November 1971 (USA)
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Tagline:
The scream you hear may be your own! more
Plot:
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
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(10 articles)
The Best of the Obsessed
(From SoundOnSight. 4 September 2009, 12:26 PM, PDT)
Night Fever: The World of Obsessive Fan Movies
(From IFC. 2 July 2009, 7:50 AM, PDT)
(From SoundOnSight. 4 September 2009, 12:26 PM, PDT)
Night Fever: The World of Obsessive Fan Movies
(From IFC. 2 July 2009, 7:50 AM, PDT)
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An impressive psychological thriller
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Clint Eastwood | ... | Dave |
 | Jessica Walter | ... | Evelyn |
 | Donna Mills | ... | Tobie |
| John Larch | ... | Sgt. McCallum |
| Jack Ging | ... | Frank |
| Irene Hervey | ... | Madge |
| James McEachin | ... | Al Monte |
| Clarice Taylor | ... | Birdie |
| Don Siegel | ... | Murphy (as Donald Siegel) |
| Duke Everts | ... | Jay Jay |
| George Fargo | ... | Man |
| Mervin W. Frates | ... | Locksmith |
| Tim Frawley | ... | Deputy Sheriff |
| Otis Kadani | ... | Policeman |
| Brit Lind | ... | Anjelica |
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102 min | Portugal:96 min (TV version)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Iceland:12 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Singapore:M18 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 (video re-rating) (2002) |
UK:18 (video rating) (1985) |
UK:X (original rating) |
USA:R (Certificate #22848) |
West Germany:18
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Clint Eastwood's directorial debut.
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Revealing mistakes: The VU (audio) meters on the KRML control board are motionless during music and voice input, indicating that the station is either off the air during filming or that the actual audio source is elsewhere.
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Quotes:
Evelyn:
Don't you like me?
David 'Dave' Garver: You're a nice girl.
Evelyn: But who needs nice girls?
David 'Dave' Garver: I'm kind of hung up on one.
Evelyn: And you don't want to complicate yourself.
David 'Dave' Garver: That's exactly right.
Evelyn: Well neither do I, but that's no reason we shouldn't sleep together tonight if we feel like it.
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David 'Dave' Garver: You're a nice girl.
Evelyn: But who needs nice girls?
David 'Dave' Garver: I'm kind of hung up on one.
Evelyn: And you don't want to complicate yourself.
David 'Dave' Garver: That's exactly right.
Evelyn: Well neither do I, but that's no reason we shouldn't sleep together tonight if we feel like it.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers (#4.1)" (1991)
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Soundtrack:
Willie and the Hand Jive
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This is quite an impressive, very 70s looking psycho-thriller that is sure to please.
Clint Eastwood plays Dave Garver, a radio DJ in southern California. One night, a woman calls requesting that he "Play Misty for me." Later, he meets the woman at a bar he goes to often, and they go back to her house together and make love. The next morning, he leaves, figuring it was just a one-night stand, but when he gets home, the woman, Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter) shows up with groceries and starts to make herself at home. Dave decides to go with it, and later sees that his old girlfriend, Tobie Williams (Donna Mills), is back in town, and the two become close again. But Evelyn won't go away, and continues to follow Dave everywhere, and starts to get viciously jealous of Tobie. And as Dave and Tobie's relationship forms, Evelyn becomes angry and violent, and eventually, murderous, and Dave must find some way to stop her before she ruins his life, and potentially, kills him.
A very creepy movie. Jessica Walter is beyond convincing as the jealous psycho lover, and Clint Eastwood proves that he doesn't just do Dirty Harry movies. Donna Mills is also quite good as the innocent girlfriend. The movie implies and foreshadows a lot, making everything even scarier. But the best scene in the whole movie is the knife attack on the maid, Birdie. That scene competes with the shower scene in "Psycho" as one of the most shocking in film history. The way the camera darts and swings around, and Birdie's screams as she struggles and fights to get away, all add up to one of the scariest scenes I've every seen. The climax is quite good, if not executed a little too quickly, but what led to it was shocking enough to overshadow it.
All in all, a great film that I would definitely recommend.