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Play Misty For Me

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 What happens when the man who's always in control becomes the victim? Eight months before Dirty Harry made him an icon, Clint Eastwood took his biggest risk—directing himself in a psychological thriller that flipped his screen image completely.
Play Misty for Me was more than Eastwood's directorial debut—it was his declaration of independence from typecasting and audience expectations. As late-night radio DJ Dave Garver, Eastwood played vulnerability without sacrificing his essential toughness, creating a character who was competent in his professional life but utterly unprepared for the obsessed fan who wouldn't take no for an answer.

We explore how this small, personal film shot in Carmel established the themes that would drive Eastwood's entire directing career: the relationship between isolation and vulnerability, the way violence enters ordinary lives, and the understanding that control is always an illusion. Plus, Jessica Walter's genuinely terrifying performance as cinema's most disturbing stalker.

This is the film that proved Clint Eastwood was more than just a man with a gun—and the beginning of a directing career that would span five decades.

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