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I like both films x it’s Clint after all ;)
Well worth it , an hour and a half with Clint being open and frank about his films and the characters he played.
I'll try and watch it tomorrow, Sky have done some good documentarys on Hollywood. Been catching up on other TV shows on my watch list before it expires, there is way too much good TV these days.
Agreed !
I have to sacrifice some films and programmes that I have recorded as I have forgotten that they are even there !
Play Misty to me is another classic movie that deserves more credit than it gets.
Come to think of it, I spotted Play Misty For Me being advertised in Dirty Harry.
My favourite of the Leone westerns. It's got everything…and a killer soundtrack. Love it, must have been great to see it on the BIG screen.
The IFI are showing some special screenings of thrillers over the next few Sundays. The Day of the Jackal..Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View. Hope to get to see one or all!
Fatal Attraction et al have a hell of a lot of debt owed to this classic.
Need to watch Play Misty For Me again soon. Have a double-DVD with The Eiger Sanction, so I might make it a double feature!
Both are excellent.
Haven't watched either of them in at least 10-12 years, so it's about time for a rewatch.
Nowadays, the average cinemagoer is very much part of a collective hive mentality. If a group of people decide a certain movie is great, everyone elects that movie to be great, and vice versa. I also think modern audiences maybe a bit too sensitive for this type of brash movie and would not quite understand the irony. The delicate little souls would probably be outraged by Harry Callahan and now see him just as an ultra-fascist, State-sponsored executioner who should be put away for his crimes. Of course, forgetting that police weren't entirely popular in the US at the time of Dirty Harry's original 1971 release either. What with the city riots sparked by police brutality and student demonstrations that turned violent due to overzealous policing. A movie about a trigger-happy cop should, by all accounts, have failed at the BO. But it didn't. And I guess the main reason for this is perhaps because Harry was as much against the pompous, stony-faced authority figures just as much as the audience was... and of course, they liked to see the bad guys get their comeuppance. I think if a modern Dirty Harry movie was made for the current market, it would have to be a very sanitised PG-13 with Harry Callahan having to don a cape and a mask, and he'd have to be given some kind of special super power, of course. On seconds thoughts, let's forget rebooting Dirty Harry and leave the memory untarnished.
This might be controversial to some, but as much as I love the Dollar movies, I'd say The Outlaw Josey Wales is Eastwood's best western. I just love the way he turns from a weak, normal family man (only glimpsed at the beginning) into the devil incarnate. Of course, The Unforgiven must have been written with this same character very much in mind. I believe the original script was first drafted the same year as Josey Wales came out. The dialogue for Joesy Wales is brilliant. And as much as I love Ennio Morricone's scores, Jerry Fielding's Josey Wales is a brutal, rousing and at times disturbing score.
Agree. Fantastic film in my top 5 Westerns.
Dyin' ain't much of a living', boy
An 11 Apr 1975 memorandum found in AMPAS library production files announced that the role of “Felicity,” played by Claudine Auger, had been “eliminated” from the picture.
Out of curiosity, what are your other top 5 Westerns @Lancaster007?
Thanks for that. She's in Trevanian's book. Felicity Arce (pronounced Arse). She's Hemlock's assignment-briefer whom he seduces and beds. Only a small role and probably superfluous and too rude a name to include in the movie. I'm guessing Eastwood ran a thick marker pen through those scenes.
Interesting..i bet she still looked good only 10 years after TB as well.
Oh, it's probably fluid but at the moment, and in no particular order.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
For A Few Dollars More
Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
The Longriders
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Looking good,shame we cant see the footage anywhere,i presume they had filmed the scene by that time in '75.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The Searchers
Rio Bravo
The Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch
... and I do like Jeremiah Johnson as an alternative wilderness western. And if Ridley Scott ever gets to take his thumb out of his backside, then I'm sure S. Craig Zahler's Wraiths of the Broken Land will be on that list, too.
His response was: "After leaving Charlie McCoy's family at the airport, Harry and Davis (David Soul) drive back together. Davis needs cigarettes, so they stop off at a bowling alley and decide to grab a beer. As they enter, a group of young people leave and are quickly followed by two guys in work uniforms. Davis suspects something and follows them around the building. He arrives to find the two guys beating the lone black kid of the group. As he begins fighting off one of the attackers, the other charges with him a knife.
Harry appears, beer in hand, only to smash the charging attacker's head with the bottle. He then rushes to the young boy's aid and attempts to revive him, but he is already dead. (The boy's friends have informed them that he has a heart condition.) Turning his attention back to the struggle, he sees Davis slam the other man's head into a car fender. When Harry points out that the man was already unconscious, Davis simply smiles, "I know,". By now, several onlookers have gathered around the young boy's body.
Davis addresses the crowd, asking them how much longer they will tolerate this sort of criminal behaviour in their city. As his speech becomes more heated, Harry stands back, taking it all in curiously. One of the largest scenes to be cut from the series, possibly to avoid another racially motivated death (after Charlie Russell's death in Dirty Harry), or to avoid giving Harry another clue that he didn't really need."
clinteastwood.org/forums/index.php?topic=38.0
I'd thought I'd share that deleted scene with you as I know you're a big Eastwood fan.
That's a great film too.