- DIRECTOR:
Clint Eastwood
- ACTORS:
Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging,
Irene Hervey, James McEachin, and Clarice Taylor
- PLOT:
A womanizing jazz radio DJ becomes entangled with a crazed fan who is all-too-willing to kill the competition.
- EVALUATION:
Walter's gleefully unhinged performance is a highlight of a stalker film that seems pedestrian now, despite probably being groundbreaking back in 1971.
- WRITING:
Potentially intelligent conversations about jazz and poetry are undercut when delivered by blockheads like Eastwood and Larch.
- FILMING:
Eastwood has always been a better director than an actor, even in his directorial debut, but it is cinematographer Bruce Surtees (Dirty Harry, Night Moves) who does most of the heavy lifting in this one.
- BEST PART:
Lucille Bluth stabbing people, obviously, but also some wonderful shots of the Monterey coast.
- TRIVIA:
The outdoor concert was the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival.
- STINGER:
"Yeah, get lost, assholes!"
