I Saw What You Did (1965)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

William Castle

Writers:

Ursula Curtiss (novel)
William P. McGivern (writer)

Release Date:

21 July 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Fate dials the number...terror answers the phone!

Plot:

Teenagers, Libby and Kit, innocently spend an evening doing random prank calls. These calls lead to murderous consequences.

Plot Keywords:

Anonymous Phone Call | Telephone Prank | Prank Telephone Call | Phone Terror | Car Registration

Cast

Joan Crawford	...	Amy Nelson
John Ireland	...	Steve Marak
Leif Erickson	...	Dave Mannering
Sara Lane	...	Kit Austin (as Sarah Lane)
Andi Garrett	...	Libby Mannering
Sharyl Locke	...	Tess Mannering
Patricia Breslin	...	Ellie Mannering
John Archer	...	John Austin
John Crawford	...	Trooper
Joyce Meadows	...	Judith Marak
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Douglas Evans	...	Tom Ward
Barbara Wilkin	...	Mary Ward

Also Known As:

I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are! (USA) (DVD title)

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Company:

William Castle Productions

Trivia:

Grayson Hall was originally offered the role that was given to Crawford.

Quotes:

Libby: I saw what you did, and I know who you are.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: I Saw What You Did" (1998)

Enjoyable William Castle effort is more fun than scary

Two teenage girls and one's younger sister are left alone for an evening and get up to mischief with the phone, making prank calls to people for fun. Unfortunately, "I saw what you did and I know who you are" didn't set too well with one Steve Marak (John Ireland) who had just killed his girlfriend. Steve's neighbor, Joan Crawford, has been apparently wanting Steve very badly & now that his tramp girlfriend has packed up and left (ha), she can have him for her very own. Now, these young ladies choose to pile into the car & drive by Steve's house just to look, and one can't resist going up to look in the windows, and Crawford catches here & thinks that she's been out to steal her man, and before they can drive away Crawford grabs the vehicle registration off the steering column of the car. But when Crawford goes back into the house she stumbles across Steve's little indiscretion & wants to bribe him into marrying her. Steve's not fond of that idea and takes care of Joan as well and then finds the registration and goes after the girls. This is a fun little movie with a good atmosphere, and while it's a bit tense at times it's not terribly scary (not in this day and age, anyway). Crawford is a bit overdone with hair like Marie Antoinette and what appears to be a chandelier dangling around her neck. Ireland is suitably grim and somewhat creepy as the quiet but crazed killer. A good William Castle effort and quite enjoyable. 8 out of 10.