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Richard Jewell (2019), an American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray, follows the story of Richard Jewell. In 1986, he starts off as an office supply clerk at the Small Business Administration where he forms a friendship with attorney Watson Bryant. Eventually, he leaves to pursue a career in law enforcement. Although he briefly works as a sheriff’s deputy, he ultimately gets discharged. In early 1996, Jewell takes on a security guard position at Piedmont College but is terminated due to multiple complaints of ...

The American crime drama, The Mule (2018), was both directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also stars in the film. After missing his daughter Iris’s wedding to receive a prestigious lifetime award for his work as a horticulturalist in 2005, Korean War veteran Earl Stone faces the consequences of choosing his career over his family. This event leads to his daughter cutting off communication and his wife filing for divorce. Twelve years later, Earl attends his granddaughter Ginny’s wedding rehearsal without revealing that he is bankrupt and facing foreclosure on his once successful flower farm. It is ...

Bird (1988) is a biographical musical drama film, directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. In Kansas City, Missouri during 1939, young saxophonist Charlie Parker plays at the Reno Club, but his fast and erratic playing leads to a negative response from the audience. Moving to New York City, he performs at various jazz venues on 52nd Street and meets Dizzy Gillespie. Together, they develop a unique style of jazz that gains popularity as ‘bebop’. While playing with Dizzy, Charlie meets Chan Parker, a dancer and fellow fan of jazz. Despite his persistent attempts to ask her out, she rejects him and relocates to ...

Gardens of Stone (1987), an American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is based on Nicholas Proffitt’s novel of the same name. Sergeant First Class Clell Hazard, a hardened veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars, would prefer to serve as an instructor at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, preparing soldiers for the conflict in Vietnam. However, he is instead assigned to the 1st Battalion 3d Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) at Fort Myer, Virginia. This unit serves as the ceremonial honor guard for fallen soldiers’ funerals and guards the ...

Clint Eastwood produced and directed the American war film, Heartbreak Ridge (1986). Eastwood also starred in the film. Three years prior, Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Thomas ‘Tom’ Highway schemes a way to return to his former unit, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Second Marine Division. On his journey back, Highway crosses paths with Corporal ‘Stitch’ Jones who asks to borrow money for a meal at a rest stop. However, Jones ends up stealing Highway’s bus ticket, leaving him stranded. Upon arriving at his destination, Highway’s new ...

Pale Rider (1985) is an American Western film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also stars as the lead character. The story takes place in the Old West, near LaHood, California in Carbon Canyon. In this area, mining tycoon Coy LaHood is engaged in a campaign of intimidation against independent prospectors and their families. This includes Hull Barret, who is courting Sarah Wheeler. After a violent attack by LaHood’s men that results in the death of her dog, Sarah’s daughter Megan desperately prays for help. Her prayers are answered when a man on a pale horse arrives in Carbon Canyon. When Hull ...

The American neo-noir psychological mystery crime action thriller film, Tightrope (1984), was both directed and written by Richard Tuggle. The main focus of the movie is a young woman who is stalked while walking home from her birthday party. Upon dropping one of her presents, a supposed police officer offers to walk her to her front door. However, it is later revealed that this policeman is actually the stalker himself. The following day, divorced New Orleans detective Wes Block and his daughters Penny and Amanda, discover a stray dog and decide to take it in despite already having several strays at home. As they ...

The film City Heat (1984) follows the comedic crime-capers of two former friends turned rivals, Mike Murphy and Lieutenant Speer. Set in Kansas City during the Great Depression, Speer visits a diner for coffee and is soon interrupted by two men seeking out Murphy. Despite their history as friends on the police force, tensions arise as the men fight over the affection of Murphy’s secretary Addy. As Murphy moves on with a new love interest, socialite Caroline Howley, he struggles with commitment while still caught up in his rivalry with Speer. Directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Blake Edwards, this American buddy-comedy stars Clint Eastwood and Burt ...

Sudden Impact (1983), an American neo-noir action thriller film and the fourth installment of the Dirty Harry series, follows artist Jennifer Spencer and her sister Beth as they are brutally attacked by a gang in 1973. Sadly, the attack leaves Beth catatonic. Ten years pass before Spencer takes matters into her own hands and takes revenge on one of the criminals, George Wilburn, in San Francisco. She then returns to her hometown of San Paulo to seek out the remaining criminals. Meanwhile, Inspector Harry Callahan is once again frustrated when a judge dismisses his case due to his direct methods. At his go-to diner, he manages to thwart a robbery and take down ...

Honkytonk Man (1982) is an American musical western comedy-drama that takes place during the Great Depression. The film was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars alongside his son, Kyle Eastwood. During his audition, Red’s hopes are dashed when a coughing fit interrupts his performance. However, talent scouts from a record company are still impressed and set up a recording session for him. Unfortunately, Red’s tuberculosis takes a turn for the worse during this session and Smokey, a side guitarist played by country singer Marty Robbins, steps ...

Clint Eastwood produced, directed, and starred in Firefox (1982), an American action techno-thriller film. Based on Craig Thomas’ novel of the same name, it follows a joint British-American mission to steal a highly advanced Soviet aircraft known as ‘Firefox’. Capable of hypersonic flight and equipped with thought-controlled weapons, this MiG-31 (NATO code name) is also invisible to radar. Mitchell Gant, a former Vietnam veteran and prisoner of war who can speak Russian due to his mother’s heritage, leads the infiltration aided by dissidents within ...

Any Which Way You Can (1980), directed by Buddy Van Horn, is an American action comedy film. Philo Beddoe, who previously threw a fight with Tank Murdock, continues to participate in underground bare-knuckle boxing matches two years later. He resides with his family and orangutan Clyde, and ultimately decides to retire from fighting when he realizes he has grown to enjoy the pain. One night at his favorite bar, Philo reunites with his ex-girlfriend Lynn Halsey-Taylor, a country-western singer who apologizes for their past issues. The two rekindle their relationship and move in together. The Black Widows biker gang, who ...

Don Siegel directed and co-produced the epic prison action thriller film, Escape from Alcatraz (1979). The story follows Frank Morris, a seasoned criminal who is transferred to the infamous maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island in the early 1960s. Known for its strict security measures, no inmate has ever successfully escaped from this facility. On the day of his arrival, Morris swipes a nail clipper from the Warden’s desk. As time passes, he befriends other prisoners such as Litmus, who has a sweet tooth; English, a black man serving two life sentences for killing in self-defense; and Doc, an elderly inmate ...

Every Which Way but Loose (1978), an American action comedy film released by Warner Bros., features Clint Eastwood in a unique comedic role. Philo Beddoe is a truck driver residing in the San Fernando Valley, sharing a small home with an orangutan named Clyde behind his brother and mother’s house. Philo earns extra money as a bare-knuckle fighter and is often compared to renowned boxer Tank Murdock. One evening at the Palomino Club, a local honky-tonk, Philo becomes enamored with Lynn Halsey-Taylor, an aspiring country singer. However, their seemingly successful relationship takes a turn when Lynn and her camper ...

The Gauntlet (1977), an American action thriller directed by Clint Eastwood and starring both Eastwood and Sondra Locke, follows Ben Shockley, an alcoholic cop from Phoenix, as he is tasked with escorting witness Augustina ‘Gus’ Mally from Las Vegas. Shockley’s superior, Commissioner Edgar A. Blakelock, dismissively refers to Mally as a ‘nothing witness’ for a ‘nothing trial’. Despite Mally’s insistence that they are in danger of being killed in a planned hit, Shockley remains ...

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) is an American Western film that takes place during and after the American Civil War. Clint Eastwood both directed and starred in the movie. A Missouri farmer named Josey Wales seeks revenge after his wife and young son are killed by a group of Redlegs, a unit of pro-Union Jayhawker militants under Captain Terrill’s command. After burying his loved ones, Josey practices shooting before joining a Confederate group led by William T. Anderson and participating in attacks against Union supporters and soldiers. As the war comes to an end, Captain Fletcher convinces the guerrillas to ...

The Enforcer (1976), a neo-noir action thriller and the third installment in the Dirty Harry series, is directed by James Fargo and stars Clint Eastwood. In Marin County, two gas company employees fall victim to Bobby Maxwell after being lured to a remote spot in Mill Valley by a seductive woman. Maxwell is part of the People’s Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), a group posing as terrorists to cover up their illegal activities. Inspector Harry Callahan and his colleague Frank DiGiorgio are first called to handle a fake heart attack at a restaurant before ...

The Eiger Sanction (1975), an American action film, features both Clint Eastwood as director and leading actor. Adapted from the 1972 novel of the same name by Trevanian, it follows the story of Jonathan Hemlock – an art professor and skilled mountaineer who also happens to be a retired government assassin. Despite having left his previous profession behind, he is suddenly called back for two more ‘sanctions’ – or officially sanctioned killings. Throughout his time with the secretive government agency known as ‘C2’, Hemlock had amassed ...

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), an American crime comedy film written and directed by Michael Cimino, follows the story of a young man named Lightfoot who impulsively steals a car. Meanwhile, an assassin targets a preacher giving a sermon and chases him on foot. By chance, Lightfoot comes to the preacher’s rescue when he unintentionally runs down the assailant and offers him a ride. As they continue to evade danger, they bond over stealing cars and visiting prostitutes. However, Lightfoot soon discovers that his companion is actually infamous bank robber ‘Thunderbolt’, hiding under the guise of a ...

Breezy (1973), a romantic drama directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Robert Daley, follows the story of a young couple who wakes up together after a one-night stand. Edith Alice ‘Breezy’ Breezerman quickly gets dressed and steps into the daylight. Having lost her parents in a car accident and leaving her aunt’s care after high school, Breezy now roams California as a carefree hippie, spending her nights couch surfing. Meanwhile, Frank Harmon, a middle-aged wealthy man with a successful career in real estate, is saying goodbye to an overnight guest ...