Play Misty for Me

Play Misty for Me centres on Dave, a disc jockey at a small California radio station. A woman keeps calling his late-night show to request the same song, and when he finally meets her he finds out that Evelyn is the voice on the phone. They begin a casual affair, which Dave ends once his girlfriend Tobie is back in his life. Evelyn refuses to accept the break and her interest turns into pursuit, threatening both Dave and the people close to him.

The film was released in 1971 and marked Clint Eastwood's first time in the director's chair, the first of 40 features he would direct in chronological order; High Plains Drifter followed in 1973. Dean Riesner and Jo Heims wrote the screenplay, and Robert Daley and Jennings Lang produced for Universal Pictures and Malpaso Productions. Eastwood plays Dave opposite Jessica Walter as Evelyn, with Donna Mills as Tobie, John Larch, Jack Ging and Irene Hervey among the 28 credited cast members. It runs 102 minutes.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.9 from over 31,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.6 from a much smaller pool of 586 voters. A critics' rating of 7.3 from 40 reviews places it slightly above what general audiences give it. The film took in about 11 million dollars worldwide.