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I Saw What You Did

I Saw What You Did

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good Old Fashioned Suspense!
Review: Okay, It May Not Be Hitchcock but this Suspense Film From the 60's still delivers and proves that a film doesnt need alot of gore and blood to still be scary and suspenseful. What starts out as a harmless prank, soon sets the stage for a night of terror! To me, the best part of this whole film was the setting in the country side at night with a thick fog to add dramatic effect. Speaking of Great Effects, Joan Crawford has a small part in the film and seeing how she had aged is almost as scary as the ending of the film! The type of film that will have you checking under your bed at night!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Director William Castle finally makes an actual thriller!
Review: Once upon a time two teenage girls, Kit (Sarah Lane) and Libby (Andi Garrett), spent the evening making prank phone calls to random numbers. Then they called up Steve Marak (John Ireland) and told him "I saw what you did and I know who you are," but the two girls did not know that the man had just murdered his wife. Of course, the man wanted to find the two "witnesses" and kill them, but just to make things interesting, his neighbor Amy Nelson (played in predictable over-the-top fashion by Joan Crawford), really does know about the murder. However, she has other plans for her neighbor besides sending him to prison.

Actually, "I Saw What You Did" might be the best film ever directed by William Castle, king of the exploitation film ("House on Haunted Hill," "The Tingler"), even though it is atypical of his work. Of course Castle did set up "Shock Sections" for panicky audience members for this film, but the actual movie is a tense and entertaining thriller. Unfortunately the extras on this DVD are pretty sparse, although it does include Castle's promotional clip along with the theatrical trailer and a miniature reproduction of the poster.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: DVD edition review
Review: The film is great, and so is the transfer to DVD. But, I am very disappointed that Anchor Bay released this title in only one channel sound, not two, or even four channel. However, this is still a great film, and, yes, I finally noticed that chandlier around Miss Crawford's neck. Would love to see the 1988 remake someday.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Don't pick up the phone
Review: This is a movie not for the squemish. I find it edgy, and intense around every curve, and turn. 2 teenage girls are alone in a big house in the deep deep country while parents are away overnight, and they are watching a little girl in the process of having fun making prank phone calls saying the classic line "I Saw What You Did, and I Know Who You Are". Unfortunately it leads to the path of a psychotic killer played by John Ireland. Joan Crawford loves him, and is to the point of total possession of him. He just murdered his wife, and Joan is out for her man even to the point of blackmail. He ends up murdering Joan too, and now to meet the girl who called him, and a intense confrontation in which life and death hang in the fog, and the balance. It's a bit cheesy with the soundtrack, and the ending is a little bit far fetched, but still a good slab of suspense.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Worth it for Joan
Review: This is one of those bad movies Joan Crawford made toward the end of her career. But her fans needn't feel any embarrassment here (as we do in the case of TROG) for I SAW WHAT YOU DID is simply light, tongue-in-cheek entertainment that will leave you chuckling over its sheer absurdity. Joan's performance here is a serious contender for her all-time worst, but it's funny-bad. Whether you love Joan or hate her, you'll laugh out loud when she catches that young girl snooping around John Ireland's house and commands her again and again to "GET OUT OF HERE! " Only problem is, a viewer unfamiliar with Joan's otherwise excellent work may wind up thinking she took acting lessons from Wile E. Coyte.

The letterboxing is welcome; however, John Castle doesn't exactly have Fellini's or Antonioni's artistic eye.

Bubba

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Entertaining Movie
Review: This movie shows how an innocent prank can turn into horror if you do it to the wrong person.Even though the acting was a little weak(the 2 teenage girls),it was suspenseful.The shower scene was too much of a copy from psycho,but it did have some good moments.I loved the funky 60's music and there were some funny prank calls they made,my favorite was to Mr.Burger when the girl said, " I'm hungry, can I eat you".Buy this movie!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This movie is the freakiest coolest 60's movie ever!
Review: This movie was so cool! I loved it! It had a great cast, it had a little humor and the black and white humor make it probably the scariest movie since the haunting. The girls did a great job and it would look great on DVD. Get It...and watch it tonight.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Did nothing for me.
Review: To the point - After making this film, Joan made Berserk and Trog before she moved on to tv films.'I saw what you did' is pretty horrible film with a flimsy story line.The only saving grace is the brief moments of Joan,still glamous and every inch a STAR.
from an audience point of view
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: UXORICIDE ANYONE?
Review: Well, we do see Ms. Joan - albeit for a few fleeting moments in this rather quirky little thriller about two teenagers playing the usual phone-pranks, with not too pleasant results ..... seems that an unusually uxorious husband has just successfully silenced ...... well, that would be giving the plot away.....

Quite a delicious little Castle here - fits quite well with "Macabre" and the operatic, and little seen "Homicidal".

BUT what IS Miss Crawford wearing around her neck? Memories about that 'enhancement' still drawfs the rest of the movie.

WARNING : Never leave your Driver's license within open view .......

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Deliciously Over-The-Top Joan Crawford! A Good DVD, Too!
Review: William Castle (the movie "gimmick-meister") brought to the screen in July of 1965 a film entitled "I Saw What You Did", starring an aging Joan Crawford (who was 61). This was one of Joan's last pictures, and she proves here she still had what it takes (albeit, in this film, in a somewhat humorous and over-the-top fashion).

The premise of this movie is a clever one -- two teenaged girls begin playing a telephone "game", where they call people at random out of the phone book and inform them "I saw what you did ... and I know who you are!"

This "game" takes a realistic twist when (as fate would have it) one of the "victims" of the girls' prank turns out to have committed a murder just minutes before the call. A dangerous game indeed.

The two young girls are played by Andi Garrett and Sarah Lane. They aren't exactly in Miss Crawford's class, acting-wise, but I liked both of them in this movie very much. They just seemed to have a "real" quality to them that came through on screen. Interestingly, this was Andi Garrett's *only* film appearance ever. And Sarah Lane appeared in just one other film besides this one (which was a made-for-TV movie).

Anchor Bay and Universal give us this black-and-white film on DVD in a good-looking Widescreen presentation (1.78:1), with a robust-enough Mono soundtrack. The transfer here is not "Anamorphic", but it looks like one nonetheless, displaying a very clear picture with little in the way of any video distractions.

Not many, but a few, Bonus Features occupy space on this one-disc DVD edition. There's the Original Trailer for the film, plus a "Teaser Trailer", which features Director William Castle's "World Premiere Announcement" for this little chiller/thriller.

Also on the disc are some text-only "Talent Bios" (for Crawford and Castle). The Bio section for Miss Crawford is very nice, too -- featuring a multitude of text screens covering her vast career. Many vintage photos of the actress are also included on the bio text screens.

A one-page (two-sided) insert comes in this Keepcased package. This is one of the nicer single-page DVD enclosures, being made from a thicker cardboard than most flimsier paper inserts. A listing of the movie's 20 "Chapters" is on one side; while a reproduction of an original lobby card (or poster) for the film is shown on the other side of the insert.

"I Saw What You Did" certainly isn't the best or scariest flick you'll ever see. But it has a certain atmospheric "charm" to it that definitely places it within the "worth a look" category.


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