Though Joan Crawford is the box office name in I Saw What You Did, she comes in after about a third of the film is over and is dispatched before the final third begins. The real stars of the film are teenage girls Sara Lane and Andi Garrett who had brief careers and John Ireland a man they prank and live to regret it.
You couldn't make this film today. Two bored and stupid teens who are babysitting the sister of one of them decide to play a game of random phone call. Wouldn't you know it they call up John Ireland who has just done a Janet Leigh on his wife Joyce Meadows in the shower. And what do they say, "I Saw What You Did".
Crawford is a next door neighbor who has real evidence of what Ireland did and threatens him with the cops unless he marries her. She's got it bad for Ireland, but blackmail is hardly the basis for a happy marriage no matter how good the sex is. Crawford pays for that dumb play.
William Castle directed the film, stylishly to be sure, but the film's premise is a truly dumb one.
And with Caller IDs today that film could never be remade. Thank God for small favors.
You couldn't make this film today. Two bored and stupid teens who are babysitting the sister of one of them decide to play a game of random phone call. Wouldn't you know it they call up John Ireland who has just done a Janet Leigh on his wife Joyce Meadows in the shower. And what do they say, "I Saw What You Did".
Crawford is a next door neighbor who has real evidence of what Ireland did and threatens him with the cops unless he marries her. She's got it bad for Ireland, but blackmail is hardly the basis for a happy marriage no matter how good the sex is. Crawford pays for that dumb play.
William Castle directed the film, stylishly to be sure, but the film's premise is a truly dumb one.
And with Caller IDs today that film could never be remade. Thank God for small favors.