Would have been an interesting movie with Frank Sinatra. There was also John Wayne considered to play Dirty Harry but he rejected the role. Later he tried to make his own Diry Harry Movies.
Frank Sinatra made the Tony Rome films
Iāve never seen the first, but the second one, Lady in Cement, was on Belgian TV a while ago
Apart from Raqual Welch (and Dan āHossā Blocker) it was nothing special, and Olā Blue Eyeswas a private investigator in it, not a police detective, but he sure was presented as a kind of ādirtyā person
Maybe they got the idea from these movies that he could impersonate a type like Dirty Harry
[quote=āCol. Douglas Mortimer, post:18, topic:647ā]Dirty Harry was the first Eastwood movie I ever saw. Andy Robinson shouldāve gotten an Oscar. I like the Enforcer as well even though Iām not a fan of Tyne Daly.
Eastwood has made some of my favorite American westerns such as Josey Wales, Unforgiven, High plains drifter and Pale Rider.
Interestingly enough I also though Eastwood made some of my least favorite AMerican westerns. I thought Hang em High and Joe Kidd were just horrible. A slight notch above Fidani.[/quote]
Agreed about Joe Kid, a lousy film, but I liked Hang 'm High, even more than the westerns he directed himself
Iāve said it before on this forum: Iām not a fan of Clint the director
I donāt think heās that bad, but he certainly isnāt one of the great directors either
Bad Lieutenant once said he thought most of his films are overlong. True. I guess he has too much control over them: most of them (Pale Rider is a good example) have some great scenes, but then again some excrutiating scenes as well. His direction often is rather ponderous and I always hope he wonāt try to be funny; he has an embarrassing sense of humour, his best idea of a good joke seems to be the farting dog in Sudden Impact.
I think his best film is Mystic River, but his very best work dates from the sixties and seventies, and was directed by superior directors like Sergio Leone and Don Siegel
Dirty Harry series: I liked The Enforcer as well, at least when I last saw it: at least a decade ago
I planned to watch it again soon. Iāll keep you informed ā¦
I thought there some good humourous moments in Josey Wales. Chief Dan Georgeās character and the recurring Clint spitting on the dog stuff. Also, there is a great scene in Unforgiven where Ned (Morgan Freeman) asks him how he manages without a woman and if he āuses his handā. Clintās face and just the idea of asking him if he wanks was beautiful as it fits the story but also plays with the metatext of Clint the film persona too. One of my favourite moments from a great film.
I like Clint Eastwood and his movies. Next to Charlie Bronson and Burt Reynolds He was the Action Hero of the 70ās. For todayās standars many of these Action Movies look a bit outdated. His Movies with the Orangutan are silly but I remember I had fun watching them as Kid. For me his best western (next to the SW!) are Hang em High, High Plains Drifter and Unforgiven. Maybe Unforgiven and High Plains Drifter are his best movies as Director too. Million Dollar Baby is a good movie but IMO a bit overrated. His war movie double feature (Flags from our father/Letters from Iwo Jima) is also great. āThe Battle of Okinawaā a japanese war movie of the 70ās looks somehow similiar to Letters.
For me the second Dirty Harry is the best and Sudden Impact the worst of the Dirty Harry Franchise. Sudden Impact looks like one of those āMovies made to push the girlfriendās careerā to me. Andrew Robinson as Scorpio is a really remarkable Maniac in Dirty Harry.
Iām also looking forward for Gran Torino and his Nelson Mandela Project (with Morgan Freeman).
Eastwood the Director is similar to Eastwood the Actor, in terms of consistency. When heās good, heās awesome, and when he misses, he misses. I think the westerns heās directed are all pretty good. He understands the archetypes, and in the case of Unforgiven, has some real depth in message and character. Iād say my biggest complaint with his direction is that itās somewhat pedestrian and mainstream. He doesnāt push the boundaries very often in that regard. Mystic River was incredible. Bronco Billy is shit.
I liked sudden impact only I didnāt like how he let the girl go at the end. That didnāt seem very ādirty harry likeā to me. Iām probably in the minority with my dislike for Hang Em High, which I feel is very uneven and unbelievable (he survives a hanging and being riddled with bullets, is nursed back to health by Inger Stevens and than they become lovers ughh).
I havenāt gotten around to seeing Two mules for sister sara yet even though I have the DVD. Is it any good? Should I bother?
Iāve never seen Two Mules but my cheesometer always goes off when hear about it, so I havenāt watched it. Anyone seen Paint Your Wagon, where Eastwood sings?
Iām not a fan of āTwo Mules of Sister Saraā but it has some SW feeling.
Sounds after a SW to me ;D
I think Two Mules For Sister Sara is brilliant.
The thing I like most about him is his line delivery, nearly all of his action type movies have at least one quotable line in them.
Two Miles begins and ends well, ad has some funny moments in-between, but itās quite a long ride
Siegel and Eastwood tried to do something new with the Clint persona, to give him a bit of a softer, more vulnerable edge, but without giving up the old image of the tough, lethal macho. As a result the film falls a little between two stools. In this aspect The Beguiled is a better effort, but itās not really a western (or maybe a Bergman like version of one)
Paint your Wagon was not as bad as I thought it would be, but I donāt know what that means
I had very low expectations, started to watch it when it was on television once, and more or less enjoyed it
Donāt remember much of his singing. I think the score is best known for Lee Marvin imitating a grizzly in Wandrinā Star :
BTW he was a very lazy SW Actor (only 3!). Iām happy with his fistful of SW but I wished it would have been a few more.
Recently I was watching The Specialists again and I was thinking what a famous movies this would have been with Clint instead of Johnny Halliday.
Franco instead of Johnny, Franco
Ohh alkO so wrong, but damn so right on so many levels.
pure genius, best post of 09 for sure.
Maybe this guy would have been good in bullet for a general(isimo)
Or as Mapache
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A bad actor
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His right hand is too far away from the gun. Unprofessional
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But he would have been perfect as a false cactus in a Fidani film.
Maybe he would make a career being constantly killed in every movie like Lorenzo Robeldo
[quote=āscherpschutter, post:22, topic:647ā]Frank Sinatra made the Tony Rome films
Iāve never seen the first, but the second one, Lady in Cement, was on Belgian TV a while ago
Apart from Raqual Welch (and Dan āHossā Blocker) it was nothing special, and Olā Blue Eyeswas a private investigator in it, not a police detective, but he sure was presented as a kind of ādirtyā person
Maybe they got the idea from these movies that he could impersonate a type like Dirty Harry[/quote]
The 1st Tony Rome is better.
But Frankie had already played a tough and disillussioned cop in The Detective (G. Douglas 1968), in which he helps to bring an innocent to the electric chair, but he feels guilty for doing so.
Wonder if someone thought Eastwood was good at singing in Paint Your Wagon, as not to soon after he did a cover version to the Burning Bridges song from Kellyās Heroes.