![]() ![]() Richard Nash, Natalia Traven, Nick Schenk Posted in Drama, Reviews, Western | 13 Comments » Tags: Ben Davis, Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Eduardo Minett, Fernanda Urrejola, Horacio Garcia Rojas, Mark Mancina, N. As far as those go it’s a fuckin masterpiece. It’s an actor in his ‘90s directing himself during a pandemic. As a result it might have fewer things people can pick out to laugh at, but also less that’s really original or interesting about it. Although it has some things in common with THE MULE (goofy old widower driving over the border into Mexico, going to a scary villa of criminals, driving around in a truck, getting chased by gunmen and cops) it’s a simpler story and production. I think making it now it ended up much gentler than it would’ve back then, for better or worse. In a way it seems like a movie he would’ve made when he was younger, and in fact he almost did make it in the late ‘80s, but decided to do THE DEAD POOL instead. Fischer, Bruce Surtrees, Clint Eastwood, Danny Glover, Don Siegel, Frank Ronzio, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, Jerry Fielding, Larry Hankin, Patrick McGoohan, Paul Benjamin, prison, Richard Tuggle, Roberts Blossom Posted in Reviews, Thriller | 25 Comments »ĬRY MACHO is the new one starring and directed by Mr. I remember going on a tour of that place as a kid and hearing the story. Three guys got out, they may very well have drowned, but they were never found. It’s based on the true story of the only maybe successful escape from the notorious island prison. ![]() (Siegel’s only subsequent movies were ROUGH CUT starring Burt Reynolds and JINXED! starring Bette Midler.) ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ is from 1979 and it was the last of Clint’s five movies directed by Don Siegel, because they had a falling out over which one of them got to produce it. It would be hard to argue that any “good luck” panned out in some of those years, and yet I will stubbornly continue the tradition. So then I ended up kicking off 2014 writing about A PERFECT WORLD, 2015 with THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, 2016 with KELLY’S HEROES, 2017 with PINK CADILLAC, 2018 with TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA, 2019 with THE MULE, 2020 with WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART and 2021 with THE GAUNTLET. On JanuI reviewed the movie TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE, and made up a superstition that it’s good luck for movie critics to start a year with a Clint Eastwood review. Tags: Clint Eastwood, Dick Van Patten, Don Stroud, Elmore Leonard, Gregory Walcott, James Wainright, John Carter, John Saxon, John Sturges, Lalo Schifrin, Lynne Marta, Paul Koslo, Pepe Callahan, Robert Duvall, Ron Soble, Stella Garcia Posted in Reviews, Western | 26 Comments » ![]() They say he was illegally hunting a mule deer on the Indian reservation, then threatened to piss on the court house, and it took three cops to bring him in. Joe thinks he remembers that deputy Bob Mitchell (Gregory Walcott, PRIME CUT) hit him, but has to ask for confirmation. He has a pretty good Leonard-ian introduction: passed out in a cell, his jailers bring breakfast and coffee to wake him up for a court appearance, but his cellmate Naco (Pepe Callahan, THE LONG GOODBYE) keeps it out of his reach and taunts him about it. But this was his first original screenplay, which he’d written as THE SINOLA COURTHOUSE RAID or SINOLA.Įastwood plays the titular fuckup, formerly a bounty hunter, now pursuing other interests, primarily getting drunk and arrested. Leonard was no stranger to Hollywood – his western novels The Law at Randado, Last Stand at Saber River and Hombre (plus the short stories 3:10 to Yuma, The Tall T and Only Good Ones and the crime novel The Big Bounce) had already been made into movies, and he’d adapted his own The Moonshine War. JOE KIDD (1972) is Clint Eastwood’s only movie directed by John Sturges ( BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK) and also his only one written by Elmore Leonard. ![]()
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