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Play Misty for Me was based on a screenplay by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner.

KRML Carmel (California) disk jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) has a one-night fling with Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter), an admiring fan who has been calling him repeatedly and asking him to play the song 'Misty' for her. Dave thinks nothing of the fling, as he is really trying to revive a relationship with his ex-girlfriend Tobie Williams (Donna Mills). However, their one-nighter appears to mean much more to Evelyn, who becomes obsessed with Dave, showing up at his house, stalking him, assaulting his maid Birdie (Clarice Taylor), and vandalizing his belongings. The assaults continue to escalate until it becomes apparent that Evelyn intends to kill both Dave and Tobie.

The game was called "Cry Bastion" and was simply a nonsense game that he and the bartender cooked up as a ploy to gain the interest of women that appeal to Dave.

It's a 1957 Jaquar XK-150.

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Play Misty For Me is credited with being the movie that paved the way for subsequent stalker movies featuring a psychotic female. As such, it is most often compared to Liaison fatale (1987) in which a man's brief fling results in his lover's attempts to scare and kill him and his family. Another movie with a plot similar to Play Misty For Me is Malicious (1995) in which a medical student stalks a baseball player when he returns to his previous girlfriend after a brief fling.