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Actors: Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Sara Lane, Andi Garrett
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about I Saw What You Did |
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Two bored teens (Lane and Garrett) decide to have some fun while babysitting and choose to make random prank phone calls. The caller hears the whispered phrase "I saw what you did, and I know who you are!" This causes Steve Marek (Ireland) to shiver in fear. He doesn't want anyone to have seen that he has just murdered his wife and now wants desperately to find this unwanted witness. Somebody else really knows what he did, and it's his neighbor, Amy Nelson (Crawford).
This is the spooky film – made in the days well before star 69 and Caller ID – that a generation of parents hoped would cure teens from ever making another prank call again, but instead spawned another generation of teen horror films like “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of I Saw What You Did |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- catching brutal killer/stalker
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
United States
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Check here if B&W
Yes
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