Play Misty for Me

Clint Eastwood (made famous by his leading role in Revenge of the Creature, obviously) was a movie star with designs to becoming a film director, so he found a small, thriller script, went to Universal, and asked for the money to direct. He seemed out to prove nothing else than he could make a movie and make it well. Don Siegel, who directed him the same year in Dirty Harry, was something of a mentor and even appears on a small role as a bartender. Eastwood did his thing and came in ahead of...