I Saw What You Did

Infobox Film
name = I Saw What You Did


image_size =
caption = Original theatrical poster
director = William Castle
producer = William Castle
Dona Holloway
writer = Novel:
Ursula Curtiss
Screenplay:
William P. McGivern
starring = Joan Crawford
John Ireland
Leif Erickson
music = Van Alexander
Jerry Keller
cinematography = Joseph F. Biroc
editing = Edwin H. Bryant
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = flagicon|USA 21 July 1965
runtime = 82 min.
country = USA
language = English
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0059297

"I Saw What You Did" (1965) is a Universal Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Ireland in a tale of murder. The screenplay by William P. McGivern was based upon the 1964 novel "Out of the Dark" by Ursula Curtiss. The film was directed and produced by William Castle, and co-produced by Dona Holloway. The 2002 widescreen DVD release used the film's original 1965 poster title "I Saw What You Did" And I Know Who You Are!".

Plot and cast

When two mischievous teens (Sara Lane and Andi Garrett) are home alone, they begin randomly dialing telephone numbers and telling whomever answers: "I saw what you did, and I know who you are." One call is placed to Steve Marek (John Ireland), a man who has recently murdered his wife (Joyce Meadows) and disposed of her body in the woods. Believing his crime is known, he decides to track down the girls and silence them. Neighbor Amy Nelson (Crawford) is in love with Marek and has been trying to woo him away from his wife. When she learns he is a murderer, she attempts to protect the girls but is stabbed to death by Marek. He then closes in on the girls but their parents and the police arrive in time to stop him from committing another homicide. Others in the cast include Leif Ericson, Patricia Breslin, Sharyl Locke, John Archer, and John Crawford.

Production notes

Advertisements for the movie read, "William Castle warns you: This is a motion picture about UXORICIDE!" [ [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/96078/I-Saw-What-You-Did/overview "I Saw What You Did"] at The New York Times] and, in an early trailer for the film, Castle advised the audience that a section of the theater would be installed with seat belts for audience members "who might be scared out of their seats". [ [http://www.horror-wood.com/castle.htm The William Castle Story] ] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059297/trivia IMDB trivia] ] The advertised gimmick was abandoned prior to the release of the film and never actually used. [ [http://movies.go.com/i-saw-what-you-did-and-i-know-who-you-are/d792768/horror I SAW WHAT YOU DID AND I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!] ]

Reception

"Saturday Review" noted, "Unfortunately, there is little for the eye, ear, or mind in [the film] ...The call, from teen-age pranksters [Lane and Garrett] probably seemed like a good "gimmick" on which to base an entire film. It isn't."

"Variety" commented, " [The film] is a well-produced, well-acted entry in the suspense-terror field... [the] slightest gesture or expression of [Crawford] conveys vivid emotion." [Quirck, Lawrence J.. "The Films of Joan Crawford". The Citadel Press, 1968.]

ee also

*Joan Crawford filmography

References

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name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group1 = 1940-1949
list1 = nowrap| "Strange Cargo" (1940) • nowrap| "Susan and God" (1940) • nowrap| "A Woman's Face" (1941) • nowrap| "When Ladies Meet" (1941) • nowrap| "They All Kissed the Bride" (1942) • nowrap| "Reunion in France" (1942) • nowrap| "Above Suspicion" (1943) • nowrap| "Hollywood Canteen" (1944) • nowrap| "Mildred Pierce" (1945) • nowrap| "Humoresque" (1946) • nowrap| "Possessed" (1947) • nowrap| "Daisy Kenyon" (1947) • nowrap| "Flamingo Road" (1949) • nowrap| "It's a Great Feeling" (1949)
name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group2 = 1950-1959
list2 = nowrap| "The Damned Don't Cry!" (1950) • nowrap| "Harriet Craig" (1950) • nowrap| "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1951) • nowrap| "This Woman is Dangerous" (1952) • nowrap| "Sudden Fear" (1952) • nowrap| "Torch Song" (1953) • nowrap| "Johnny Guitar" (1954) • nowrap| "Female on the Beach" (1955) • nowrap| "Queen Bee" (1955) • nowrap| "Autumn Leaves" (1956) • nowrap| "The Story of Esther Costello" (1957) • nowrap| "The Best of Everything" (1959)
name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group3 = 1960-1969
list3 = nowrap| "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) • nowrap| "The Caretakers" (1963) • nowrap| "Strait-Jacket" (1964) • nowrap| "I Saw What You Did" (1965) • nowrap| "Berserk!" (1967)
group4 = 1970
list4 = nowrap| "Trog" (1970)