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T
hough most of Clint Eastwood’s film, “Play Misty For
Me,” was shot in Monterey, California, the final scene - the
one that most movie fans remember - was shot from a
stunning cliffside home in Carmel about 200 feet over the
crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean.
The movie was the turning point in Eastwood’s now 63-year career,
catapulting him from a one-dimensional cowboy star into a director and
an accomplished actor who could handle almost any role. Eastwood
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would go on to direct 35 movies, including “Unforgiven” in 1992 and
“Million Dollar Baby” in 2004, both of which garnered Academy
Awards for Best Director.
Eastwood was a Carmel resident (he was elected mayor of Carmel in
1986) who parlayed a riveting script, two of the era’s best songs - Erroll
Garner’s “Misty” and Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face” - and spectacular Southern California scenery into one of the
early 1970s top box office and critically-acclaimed hits.
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