Let me just say this about Jessica Walter, she's got the bitch on wheels gig down perfectly, doesn't she? Man, I don't even want to think about something like this happening to me, but then again, I don't look anything like Clint Eastwood so I'm not going to have that problem. In his directorial debut, Eastwood provides a nicely drawn, taut thriller that would have been even more intense without the filler scenes like the one at the Monterey Jazz Fest. And as long as he was throwing in that love scene with Donna Mills, wouldn't it have been something if crazy Evelyn burst on the scene during the Roberta Flack number? What possibilities.
I guess what I liked best about the story was the pacing Eastwood used to develop the character of Evelyn, especially with the insertion of those brief but manic outbursts that reveal hints of her true mental state. That flare up at the business meeting had one of the best one-liners ever - "She couldn't get laid at a lumber camp" - I want to know who came up with that line.
So with the revolving door set up involving Tobie's (Mills) roommates, it didn't take a lot to figure out who her last paying tenant would turn out to be. But the resolution to the story was somewhat anti-climactic with Eastwood's character slinking around the house knowing what he was in for but not really taking any precautions against it. I'm glad at least he didn't have any reservations about taking out Miss Personality with a good right hook. With all that, the only question left to answer is this - why was there a forest growing in David's house?
I guess what I liked best about the story was the pacing Eastwood used to develop the character of Evelyn, especially with the insertion of those brief but manic outbursts that reveal hints of her true mental state. That flare up at the business meeting had one of the best one-liners ever - "She couldn't get laid at a lumber camp" - I want to know who came up with that line.
So with the revolving door set up involving Tobie's (Mills) roommates, it didn't take a lot to figure out who her last paying tenant would turn out to be. But the resolution to the story was somewhat anti-climactic with Eastwood's character slinking around the house knowing what he was in for but not really taking any precautions against it. I'm glad at least he didn't have any reservations about taking out Miss Personality with a good right hook. With all that, the only question left to answer is this - why was there a forest growing in David's house?