Clint Eastwood – 4-Movie Collection
High Plain’s Drifter
Clint Eastwood’s second film as a director finds the celebrated action star returning to his familiar Old West stomping grounds and his internationally acclaimed role of “The Man With No Name.” This time, The Stranger (Eastwood) mysteriously appears out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the lawless, sin-ridden town of Lago. After making a name for himself with a string of blazing gun battles, The Stranger is hired by the townspeople to provide protection from three ruthless gunmen just out of jail. The Stranger quickly proceeds to paint the entire town bright red, rename it “Hell,” and supply divine retribution in the fiery, pulse-pounding climax of this acclaimed western shoot-em-up.
Joe Kidd
Joe Kidd is a former bounty hunter and all-around tough-guy in the American Southwest during the Mexican-American War. When a band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all relevant records destroyed in a courthouse fire, they turn to force of arms. Louis Chama is their charismatic leader, spouting revolutionary rhetoric and demanding land reform. A wealthy landowner with interests in the disputed area, Frank Harlan, decides to settle things his own way. He hires a band of killers and wants Joe Kidd to help them track Chama. Initially, Kidd wants to avoid any involvement, until Chama makes the mistake of stealing Kidd’s horses and terrorizing his friends.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan (Clint Eastwood) rescues a nun called Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine) from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Coogan’s Bluff
This Eastern Western set in the sixties New York, stars Eastwood as the enigmatic, dangerous Arizona sheriff who loses his prisoner in the concrete canyons of Manhattan. He soon becomes entangled with pimps, crooks, hippies and cops as he trakcs the escapee in director Siegel’s funniest and most violent work. A fine study on the effects of urbanism on individuals, Coogan’s Bluff employs a wide and inventive range of characters and locales.
