Dirty Harry

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. :slight_smile:

Frank Sinatra made the Tony Rome films
Iā€™ve never seen the first, but the second one, Lady in Cement, was on Belgian TV a while ago
Apart from Raqual Welch (and Dan ā€˜Hossā€™ 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 ā€˜dirtyā€™ person
Maybe they got the idea from these movies that he could impersonate a type like Dirty Harry

[quote=ā€œCol. Douglas Mortimer, post:18, topic:647ā€]Dirty Harry was the first Eastwood movie I ever saw. Andy Robinson shouldā€™ve gotten an Oscar. I like the Enforcer as well even though Iā€™m 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

Iā€™ve said it before on this forum: Iā€™m not a fan of Clint the director
I donā€™t think heā€™s that bad, but he certainly isnā€™t 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 wonā€™t 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. Iā€™ll keep you informed ā€¦

I thought there some good humourous moments in Josey Wales. Chief Dan Georgeā€™s 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 ā€˜uses his handā€™. Clintā€™s 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 70ā€™s. For todayā€™s 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. ā€œThe Battle of Okinawaā€ a japanese war movie of the 70ā€™s 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 ā€œMovies made to push the girlfriendā€™s careerā€ to me. Andrew Robinson as Scorpio is a really remarkable Maniac in Dirty Harry.

Iā€™m also looking forward for Gran Torino and his Nelson Mandela Project (with Morgan Freeman). :slight_smile:

Eastwood the Director is similar to Eastwood the Actor, in terms of consistency. When heā€™s good, heā€™s awesome, and when he misses, he misses. I think the westerns heā€™s directed are all pretty good. He understands the archetypes, and in the case of Unforgiven, has some real depth in message and character. Iā€™d say my biggest complaint with his direction is that itā€™s somewhat pedestrian and mainstream. He doesnā€™t push the boundaries very often in that regard. Mystic River was incredible. Bronco Billy is shit.

I liked sudden impact only I didnā€™t like how he let the girl go at the end. That didnā€™t seem very ā€œdirty harry likeā€ to me. Iā€™m 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 havenā€™t gotten around to seeing Two mules for sister sara yet even though I have the DVD. Is it any good? Should I bother?

Iā€™ve never seen Two Mules but my cheesometer always goes off when hear about it, so I havenā€™t watched it. Anyone seen Paint Your Wagon, where Eastwood sings?

Iā€™m not a fan of ā€œTwo 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 itā€™s 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 itā€™s 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 donā€™t 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
Donā€™t 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!). Iā€™m happy with his fistful of SW but I wished it would have been a few more. :wink:

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. :slight_smile:

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

  1. A bad actor

  2. His right hand is too far away from the gun. Unprofessional

  3. 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=ā€œscherpschutter, post:22, topic:647ā€]Frank Sinatra made the Tony Rome films
Iā€™ve never seen the first, but the second one, Lady in Cement, was on Belgian TV a while ago
Apart from Raqual Welch (and Dan ā€˜Hossā€™ 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 ā€˜dirtyā€™ 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 Kellyā€™s Heroes.