• A confident and entertaining debut for Eastwood
  • I think it’s important that Eastwood stays with what he knows- the film is a meditation on celebrity, features the California coastline, heavy on the jazz… he keeps to what he knows
  • Strong performance from Jessica Walter
  • Clearly an influence on fatal attraction
  • Simple and modest thriller- don’t love the abrupt ending
  • Not a perfect film- there’s a scene that feels like surrealism (out of place) and I’m still not sure (and I’ve seen the film 3-4 times) whether she actually tries to stab him
  • The helicopter shot opening, in a debut, reminds me of Nicholas Ray’s they live by night
  • Not in the top 10 of 1971
  • Recommend