Nor me…crazy. Sorry if this sounds like a silly question, but was it definitely a real thing or just something someone has made up and has become an urban legend??
It was released in German cinema on 07.07.1967:
I have watched at least the German theatrical trailer.
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Nuts. Thanks 
It has an entry in Joe Hembus’ Western Lexikon with a runtime of 93 min.
It seems that it was Jolly Films, the Italian production company of FoD, which bought the rights of the 2 TV episodes for a release in Italy and Germany.
Shame on me, a review by @IllThinkAboutIt was sitting in my inbox for literally years… so here it finally is, his review of the “Clint Eastwood: Icon” book
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I can’t believe this review was 5 years ago - must dig out this book again🤠
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‘The Man With No Name’ (1977)
This is for anyone who has never seen this 1977 Clint Eastwood documentary…narrated and introduced by Iain Johnston, who also produced a Clint biography book at the same time.
I watched the documentary when it was first broadcast on BBC1 in 1977, and bought the book, which I still own - even though it has gone from the hands of a then teenager, to the hands of a now 61 year-old…time sure flies.
Funnily enough, it sometimes only feels like yesterday that there were no Blurays, DVD’s, or even tape, and that you had to wait in hope that they would broadcast your favourite film every two or three years…and you HAD to watch it, or you missed it for another few years!
Plus:
It says a lot about the influential, long-lasting legend that is Clint, that he is featured in the ultimate animated homage to Spaghetti Westerns…‘Rango’…
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You probably know this documentary was shown again recently on BBC4 ?
It was very exciting for me also to see when it was originally broadcast, and interesting to hear again the attitudes from all those years ago … One thing that stuck with me at the time, was the mention of ‘The Enforcer’, being the last ‘Dirty Harry’ movie, Clint intended to make, which was a good instinct, as the subsequent follow ups, ‘Sudden Impact’ and ‘The Dead Pool’, are amongst the worst Eastwood films - badly made and frankly an embarrassment to the franchise.
Die hard Clint fans will often eat up everything he does with an eager spoon, but for me, any sense of quality control from Malpaso Productions had gone out the window, especially after seeing ‘Sudden Impact’ at the cinema … the impact made was not what had been intended.
I didn’t see another Eastwood film at the cinema until ‘Unforgiven’, about 8 or 9 years later … and though I liked it , as it was massive jump from the 1980s crap, there was still a feeling that ‘The Man with no name’ was never going to return to his exciting action adventure films of the 1960s and 70s.
The documentary is definitely worth a look, and I presume it’s on some bonus feature disc, though I’m not sure.
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Some excellent thoughts there, Aldo.
A friend of mine recorded the doc when it was on BBC4 recently, and we watched it together. It brought back great memories of its initial broadcast, so many years ago.
I notice that when they were showing clips of ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’, Sondra Locke didn’t feature in any footage. I wonder if this was simply by chance, or because Clint was beginning his affair with her (while he was still ‘happily’ married to Maggie)?
I totally agree with you about ‘Sudden Impact’ and ‘The Dead Pool’…pretty crappy; and these were also followed by ‘The Rookie’ - a dreadful, excretable film by all standards.
All in all, I love Eastwood’s early stuff; in the days when he still had his quiff, and was being as cool as a cucumber.
I’ve no idea if the documentary is available on disc anywhere. For it’s time, in 1977, it made great TV, and I (like yourself and many others) lapped it up. It was only the year before that I’d seen ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ on BBC1, and been totally bowled over by how different and superbly stylish it was.
From what I remember, the last Eastwood film I watched at the cinema, was ‘The Dead Pool’, way back in 1988…a very disappointing experience indeed, and Clint seemed to be simply re-treading a well-worn path, initially paved to such great effect by the trail-blazing ‘Dirty Harry’ in 1971.
Thank goodness we now have so many means at our disposal to watch, and re-watch Clint’s heyday films in all their glory…
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I think you’ve hit on something ‘tres importante!’ LoL … Pre - Sondra, most of his films were really entertaining and well put together. 
His 1980s movies I later saw on TV, or at least bits of them, because when I watched the opening scenes from ‘City Heat’, I thought the guy has really lose it. Plus the fact that an Eastwood western was playing in 1985, ‘Pale Rider’, when I was 18, and wouldn’t touch it … then something is wrong.
I very much doubt that Eastwood would have agreed to an in depth docu’ if any aspect of his personal life was mentioned, as the old dog was known to have been putting it about a bit for years, even before the Dollar movies. But back in the day, a star as big as Clint still had to protect his image.
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