Play Misty for Me

The music heard during the "Jazz Fest" sequence rarely matches the video.

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.

As Dave drives towards Tobie's at the end of the film it's beginning to get light.

When he arrives, it's pitch black again.

At the radio station, when Dave threads up the tape recorder to play back his previously recorded demo tape so he can leave the studio to save Tobie from her "roommate", he mistakenly twists the tape in the machine.

This would have the effect of playing the back side of the tape.

At best, a very muffled playback of the tape would occur if the tape were threaded in this manner.

At worst, nothing at all would be heard.

When DJ Dave Garver leaves the radio station KRML to go rescue Tobie, he puts on a 5" demo/air check reel on the tape recorder.

A reel of this size could hold, at maximum, 600 ft.

of tape.

Playing at 7 1/2 ips (which is the speed most radio station recorders recorded/played music back at using 2 channel, 2 track recording - common for commercial/broadcast recorders), this would have given only 15 minutes of recorded music/voice before the tape ran out and "dead air" would have been transmitted from the station.

Yet, Dave Garver made reference to Sgt.

McCallum that Tobie lived way outside of town.

The movie also conveys the driving time Dave Garver took to get to Tobie's house.

Considering that, the fight scene at the house and when he leaves the house with Tobie at the end his request to play Misty is heard over the air, Dave would have had to mount a 10" reel containing 3600 ft.

of tape (1.

5 hours of recording at 7 1/2 ips).

Radio stations would normally have had such reels for recording entire shows.

They are not used for demo/air check tapes.

When Dave and Tobie are walking on the seashore Dave is seen on the right of her in a long shot but when the angle is changed to medium he is on the left and back on her right when the angle is changed again.

After his first date with Evelyn a shot of a sunrise over the ocean is shown.

In California the sun sets over the ocean but does not rise over it.

In the scene where Evelyn creates a disturbance as Dave is having a 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.

(not K.

During the walkabout scenes at the Jazz Festival, there is a close-up shot of a baby.

The camera's shadow is clearly visible on the baby.

When Evelyn cuts up Tobie's hair, a chunk of it lands on her left eye.

In the next shot, the chunk of hair is nowhere in sight, and Evelyn made no move to brush it off.

Clint Eastwood plays a radio disc jockey(and ladies man) who has a persistent caller to his show request the song "Misty" for her every night. Clint eventually meets this woman named Evelyn(Jessica Walter) and has(what he thinks) is a harmless fling with her, only to discover to his horror that she is really an obsessive, disturbed woman who will not be brushed off so lightly.

All of Hollywood just heard their jaws hit the floor when Clint Eastwood turned in his directorial debut. They had laughed him off before, so he creates his own production company and shows them how wrong they were.

I agree when the other users say that's it's a very good film, even not a masterpiece. I also say that's the best Eastwood's film as a director before BIRD, seventeen years later.

Mr. Eastwood's director debut, a nocturnal thriller, viewed in retrospect, is approximate to an amalgam of FATAL ATTRACTION (1987) and MISERY (1990), a radio jockey Dave Garver (Eastwood) in Carmel, California, hooks up with a girl claims to be his groupie, Evelyn Draper (Walter), it is a no-strings-attached fling, at least, in Dave's perspective, but she turns out to be his worst nightmare with her maniac obsession towards him, especially when Dave starts to patch up his romance with his ex-girlfriend Tobie (Mills), she will never let that happen as long as she is in the land of the living.

Wanting to show that he can play more than a cowboy on the silver screen, Eastwood directs himself in this psychological thriller in which he plays a disc jockey. An amazing directorial debut with some help from his mentor Don Siegel.

Clint Eastwood certainly learned his lessons well when it came to making his directorial debut, with this now legendary shocker. It may not be all that original, but when it comes to this kind of stalker melodrama, it definitely set a template for others to follow.

From my professional view (clinical psychologist) this film is a very well presented case study about a stalking woman, who is psychotic and psychopathic at the same time.What Dave (C.

Along similar lines to 'Fatal Attraction', Clint Eastwood plays a late night disc jockey here who finds himself stalked by an obsessive female fan who thought that their one night stand was something more. This was the first feature film that Eastwood ever directed and his enthusiasm with taking the reigns behind the camera for the first time frequently shows.

What a directorial debut! It was low budget and Clint sure squeezed everything he could have out of it.