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...actor was Clint Eastwood. Whatever it was he was doing, it was right. His slow-talking, fast-shooting performance in Fistful, for which he was paid $15,000, made him within months Europe's favorite American actor. Two more phenomenally successful Leone westerns followed, in which Eastwood's cut was sufficiently enlarged that he could return to the U.S. in 1967 not only a star but also a millionaire. His eight pictures released since then-many of them the stark, violent brand of adventure tale that has come to be known simply as an Eastwood movie-have made...
Calm Strength. Which still leaves the perhaps irrelevant question: Can he act? Now Eastwood has neatly sidestepped the question by becoming a director. His first effort is the recent Play Misty for Me, in which he also stars as a disk jockey who gets involved with a psychopathic listener (played by Jessica Walter). His direction is better than might have been expected, and shows a solid gift for scenes of violence and tension (TIME...
...premise, at least, is intriguingly feasible. Dave Garland (Clint Eastwood) is a late-night California disk jockey who coos cut-rate Oriental wisdom be tween sides of soft jazz. One of his female listeners is in the habit of calling in and requesting, in alluring tones, "Play Misty for me." Garland complies. Lat er, by no accident, they meet...
...frightening as she is sexy, Walter plays her part to the hilt, which in one case is at the end of a 10-in. blade. Eastwood, making his first directorial outing, has to chart a course through the holes in the plot. There are a couple of hackneyed moments (notably a nude love scene), but Eastwood displays a vigorous talent for sequences of violence and tension. He has obviously seen Psycho and Repulsion more than once, but those are excellent texts and he has learned his lessons passing well...
...these it is very thin and cracking. All others are dirt roads. There is one hotel and within it the only Western-style restaurant. In addition there are about five Chinese restaurants. When I was there the city's only movie theatre was showing Clint Eastwood in a dubbed version of "Where Eagles Dare...