I was out making cheese on toast for the whole of Roberta Flack's 'The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face' montage* and the Monterey Jazz scenes, and didn't miss anything - in other words, a redundant section. Otherwise thriller is quite good, and benefits from Carmel location, giving it a difference. Clint shoots uncomfortably close, but manages some good stabbing scenes, and the ending is really funny.
If he hadn't slept with her the second time, or the third, things might have been different. The randy racoon gets his comeuppance.
Jessica Walter is the nutter, Donna Mills the other girlfriend, John Larch the detective, Don Siegel the bartender and Jack Ging the fellow DJ.
Photographed by Bruce Surtees, edited by Carl Pingitore, written by Eastwood family friend Jo Heims (also Breezy) and Dean Reisner. Alexander Golitzen still acting as head of production design.
Clint didn't like the way Universal had handled The Beguiled, so elected to make this a Malpaso production - they still released it, but his relationship with Universal was on its way out.
*It's inclusion in the film contributed to its success.
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