Answer: Gran Torino
2008's "Gran Torino" was directed and produced by Clint and was his first starring role in four years. Clint played a Korean war veteran whose neighbour tries to steal his Ford Gran Torino as a gang initiation. Clint plays Walt Kowalski and utters this memorable line when he rescues Sue Lor, played by Ahney Her, from being roughed up by a gang, after her boyfriend Trey, played by Scott Eastwood, fails to protect her.
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Answer: Play Misty for Me
Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) is a late night disc jockey who picks up Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walters) for what he thinks is a one night stand. He learns that she is a dedicated fan and calls into his show regularly to request "Misty". But afterwards she begins to stalk him. She comes to his home uninvited, and at various times tries to kill him and his girl friend. "Play Misty for Me" (1971) was the inspiration for such later films as "Fatal Attraction" (1987) and "Misery" (1990). Walters had a Golden Globe nomination.
Eastwood had this to say about his first directing experience: "After 17 years of bouncing my head against the wall, hanging around sets, maybe influencing certain camera set-ups with my own opinions, watching actors go through all kinds of hell without any help, and working with both good directors and bad ones, I'm at the point where I'm ready to make my own pictures. I stored away all the mistakes I made and saved up all the good things I learned, and now I know enough to control my own projects and get what I want out of actors."
Eastwood changed the filming site from Los Angeles to Monterey County where he lived and utilized bars, restaurants, and radio studios in the area.
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Answer: William Holden
William Holden (1918-1981) played the role of a middle aged divorcee who falls for the much younger free spirited Edith Alice "Breezy" Breezerman (Kay Lenz). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's major productions including "The Wild Bunch", "Sunset Boulevard", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", and "The Towering Inferno". He won an Academy Award for Best Actor as J.J. Sefton in "Stalag 17" (1953).
Burt Lancaster (1913-1994), Robert Ryan (1909-1973) and Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) were all major movie actors in the '50s and '60s.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood: Part III - The Director
Answer: Clyde
Orangutans are amongst the most intelligent of primates. Clyde was played by Manus who worked in a trainers' act in Las Vegas. He was to appear in the sequel to this movie ""Any Which Way You Can" (1980) but had grown too much between the two movies. In the movie Orville was played by Geoffrey Lewis, Cholla by John Quade and Tank was the legendary bare-knuckle fighter played by Walter Barnes.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood: Part II - The Later Years
Answer: Revenge of the Creature
Clint played the part of a laboratory technician named Jennings in "Revenge of the Creature". He had only one scene and delivered only a few lines. His role in the movie was unaccredited. He only had minor unaccredited parts in 1955 in "Tarantula" and "Francis in the Navy".
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood: Part I - The Early Years
Answer: A Fistful of Dollars
"A Fistful of Dollars" was directed by Sergio Leone and tells the story of a wandering gunman who arrives at a village in Mexico. He finds that the town has been taken over by two gangster lords and works one gang against the other to try and get rich in the process.
This movie was the first "Spaghetti Western" to gain international release although over 20 had already been produced in Italy. Its original title was "The Magnificent Stranger". Clint Eastwood was making the TV series "Rawhide" and his contract forbade him to make movies in the US whilst on a break, but it did allow him to make movies in Europe. The other two movies in the "Dollar" or "Man With No Name" trilogy are "For a Few Dollars More", and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Henry Silva, Rory Calhoun, Steve Reeves, Ty Hardin and James Coburn all turned down the role of "The Man With No Name". The role triggered an incredible career for Eastwood.
From Quiz: The Movies of Clint Eastwood
Answer: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
After the climactic shootout between the Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood), Tuco (Eli Wallach), and Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), Clint issues this quote at the "unknown" grave next to Arch Stanton. While Tuco is digging, Clint sets up the rope which he forces Tuco to put on, leaving him dangling precariously on a wood cross. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" follows three men during the Civil War searching for a hidden stash of gold taken in a robbery.
From Quiz: Memorable Eastwood Movie Quotes, Western Style
Answer: Ben Shockley
Shockley's efforts to escort his troublesome witness back to Arizona are thwarted by a gang of corrupt police, including his boss. Their attempts to ensure he does not return to Arizona alive, culminate in one of the great movie action scenes, with Shockley driving a bus between two rows of heavily armed police, who continually fire on him from both sides of the street. Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand were originally cast in the roles eventually played by Clint and Sondra Locke, however the pair apparently did not get along.
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Answer: All were directed by and starred mostly Italians.
Sergio Leone was the director of all three and almost the entire cast and crew were Italian. However, they were filmed in Spain.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Westerns
Answer: Assassination of JFK
He "blew it" with JFK and has been haunted by it ever since. Good movie. Rene Russo as the girl friend, John Malkovich as the crazy bad guy.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Movies
Answer: Blondie
Although Clint never reveals his true name, Tuco calls him Blondie throughout the film.
From Quiz: Clint's Westerns
Answer: orangutan
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Answer: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Clint goes crazy with a Gatling gun, killing everybody he sees. Sweet.
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Answer: 2211
You can see it at the end of 'Dirty Harry.'
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Answer: The Man With No Name
The gun toting hero played by Clint, never reveals his name, although he is referred to as "Joe" by the undertaker, Piripero in the movie. The scene in the question takes place just after Clint enters the town and the men spook the mule he is riding by firing shots at its feet.
From Quiz: Clint Said It
Answer: Outlaw
Josie Wales (Clint Eastwood) is a Missouri farmer who is attacked by Union renegade soldiers who kill his wife and child. Seeking revenge, he joins a group of Confederate renegades. Even after the Civil War concludes, Josie continues his quest thus being labeled an outlaw. This revisionist western clocked 95% with Rotten Tomatoes. The musical score received an Oscar nomination.
The production was a tense endeavor. Philip Kaufman, the screen writer, was the first director but he and Eastwood had different visions of the film. Kaufman felt that the central character was mad and unprincipled while Eastwood perceived Josie Wales as a anti-war hero. Kaufmann was not pleased when Eastwood hired Sondra Locke, his girl friend, in a lead role and his son Kent in a minor uncredited part without his permission. Eastwood convinced Robert Daley, the producer, to fire Kaufman and appoint Eastwood as the director. The Director's Guild was outraged and invoked the Eastwood rule prohibiting an actor from firing the director and becoming the director himself.
In an interview Eastwood later said: "As for 'Josey Wales', I saw the parallels to the modern day at that time. Everybody gets tired of it, but it never ends. A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries... Man becomes his most creative during war. Look at the amount of weaponry that was made in four short years of World War II - the amount of ships and guns and tanks and inventions and planes and P-38s and P-51s, and just the urgency and the camaraderie, and the unifying. But that's kind of a sad statement on mankind, if that's what it takes."
From Quiz: The Directors: Clint Eastwood
Answer: Honkytonk Man
Kyle was 14 years old in 1982 when he played opposite Clint in this movie. Red Stovall (Clint) takes his nephew Whit (Kyle) on a ride to Nashville where he (Red) has the opportunity to make it big as a country singer at the Grand Ole Opry. Red suffers from tuberculosis and has coughing bouts during his audition. However, he impresses some talent scouts to offer him a recording session. Sadly, Red dies at the end of the movie but Whit (Kyle) has had a trip of a lifetime. In his latter years, Kyle himself has become an accomplished jazz bass musician. "Bronco Billy" (1980) was also directed by and starred Clint, with Sondra Locke also starring. In "A Perfect World" (1993) an eight year old boy played by T.J. Loether is befriended by the character played by Kevin Costner.
"Tightrope" (1984) starred Clint, and his daughter Alison Eastwood played his daughter Amanda Block in the movie. Alison was 12 years of age at the time of the movie and she has since become a director, fashion model and designer.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood: Part III - The Director
Answer: Ambush at Cimarron Pass
Clint plays the role of a southern cowboy, Keith Williams. The survivors of a US Army patrol and a group of cowboys are forced to join forces after both had been separately attacked by the same tribe of Indians. They are carry a cache of rifles which the Indians require so the Army and cowboys need to make it to the fort before the Indians get their hands on the rifles.
The other three westerns were also made in 1958. "Apache Territory" starring Rory Calhoun, "The Badlanders" starring Alan Ladd and "The Big Country" starring Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood: Part I - The Early Years
Answer: Where Eagles Dare
"Where Eagles Dare" was directed by Brian G Hutton and tells the story of the capture of an American general by the Germans during World War II after his plane is shot down. He is kept prisoner in an SS-held castle and a British commando team is sent to rescue him. The movie also stars Mary Ure, Michael Horden, and Robert Beatty.
The role of Schaffer ultimately given to Clint Eastwood was first offered to Lee Marvin, who turned it down.
The title for the film was taken from lines from William Shakespeare's "Richard III", "The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."
From Quiz: The Movies of Clint Eastwood
Answer: Pastor
In this western, Clint has to protect a young woman from would-be rapists. This is a very interesting movie where Clint acts like a guy you would actually like to know - but as a young woman finds out - not strike up a relationship with.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Dust-up
Answer: Walt
A few years before "Dirty Harry", there was Walt Coogan. Coogan shares several character traits of Eastwood's more famous celluloid cop, Harry Callahan, including a distinct dislike for heirarchy and doing things by the book. This is a classic "fish out of water" scenario, as country cop Coogan struggles to come to grips with life in the big city, while waiting to transport his criminal home. The 1970s television series "McCloud", starring Dennis Weaver, was apparently inspired by "Coogan's Bluff".
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Characters
Answer: Shane
Clint replaced the annoying kid who yelled "Shane!" with Sydney Penny yelling "Preacher!".
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Westerns
Answer: Pat Hingle
Pat Hingle is th e judge. Macarthur is the reverend. Begley is a member of the hanging party, as is Hale. Inger Stevens plays the girl friend, Arlene Golonka as the friendly hooker.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Movies
Answer: Magnum Force
'Magnum Force' was released in 1973, 'The Enforcer' in 1976, 'Sudden Impact' in 1983, and 'The Dead Pool' in 1988.
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Answer: Unforgiven
My all-time favorite movie. I love the end.
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Answer: California
Read it at the end of the movie.
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Answer: Absolute Power
While burglarizing a mansion, Clint witnesses the president of the United States in a brawl with the woman of the house. As she attempts to stab him to protect herself, she is shot and killed by his bodyguards. Throughout the movie the President's bodyguards are trying to capture him to silence him. In one scene he is being interviewed by an agent, ostensibly to get his views on who might have done the burglary. As the interview concludes the agent says that he will be back the next day and that is when Clint makes his statement, making the point that we all must die, so you should enjoy life today because there is no promise that there will be a tomorrow for you.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Inspirational Quotes
Answer: Make My Day
"Sudden Impact" was the fourth in the "Dirty Harry" series and the only one directed by Clint. In the film Clint plays Detective Harry Callahan, tracking down a female serial killer played by Sondra Locke, when he stumbles across a diner robbery. After despatching most of the gang members, he utters this line to the one remaining member who has taken a waitress hostage at gunpoint.
From Quiz: Clint Said It
Answer: Sudden Impact
In "Sudden Impact" Harry Callahan breaks up a robbery in progress but one of the toughs uses a waitress as a hostage. Callahan points his Magnum 44 at him and says, "Go ahead punk... Make my day".
The Harry Callahan franchise got off to a fast start but the public began to tire of the ruthless enforcer. Rotten Tomatoes shows the pattern: "Dirty Harry"(1971) 95%; "Magnum Force" (1973) 81%; "The Enforcer" (1976) 79%; "Sudden Impact" (1983) 57%, and "Dead Pool" (1988) 54%.
The project was originally planned as a vehicle for Sondra Locke. However, there was some concern if she could carry the film. Her boy friend, Clint Eastwood, was recruited to reprise his Harry Callahan character and fold the plot into that franchise. Sondra Locke is a gang rape victim who is tracking down the attackers and killing them. Callahan is tasked with tracking down this serial killer but instead he falls in love with her.
From Quiz: The Directors: Clint Eastwood
Answer: Sudden Impact
"Sudden Impact" (1983) was the fourth in the series with the character Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan with Sondra Locke also starring in the movie. The movie is probably best known for the phrase "Go ahead, make my Day". "Magnum Force" (1973) was directed by Ted Post, "The Enforcer" (1976) by James Fargo and "The Dead Pool" (1988) by Buddy Van Horn. The first of this series of movies was "Dirty Harry (1971) and was directed by Don Siegel.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood: Part III - The Director
Answer: The Black Widows
The Black Widows are lead by Cholla (John Quade) and eventually befriend Philo and protect him towards the end of the movie. The biker gang also appeared in the 1978 movie "Every Which Way but Loose". "The Hellcats" (1968) and "The Rebel Rousers" (1967) were names of movies released in the 1960's about biker gangs. The Black Rebels was the name of a biker gang in the movie "The Wild One" (1953) starring Marlon Brando.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood: Part II - The Later Years
Answer: A Fistful of Dollars
"A Fistful of Dollars" was made in 1964 but only released in the USA in 1967. Clint as The Stranger, rides into a small town Mexican border town called San Miguel and is caught up in a feud between two families looking to take control of the town. "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" were the second and third movies of the "Dollars Trilogy".
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood: Part I - The Early Years
Answer: Unforgiven
Will Munny utters this quote after the Schofield Kid kills his first man and says "It don't seem real... how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever... now he's dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger." "Unforgiven" was released in 1992. The movie won four Academy Awards for Best Film, Best Director (Clint Eastwood), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Gene Hackman), and Best Film Editing. In the movie, Clint plays a retired gunfighter who comes out of retirement when he is hired by a group of prostitutes who are being unfairly treated.
From Quiz: Memorable Eastwood Movie Quotes, Western Style
Answer: Dirty Harry
The first of a series that stayed consistently funny, shocking, and full of action, this movie really rocketed Clint to stardom as a hard-case homicide detective. He doesn't take guff from anyone as he works to stop an insane serial killer, while trying to work around the political red tape that surrounds the case. Watch "Dead Pool" the last movie in the series for a cameo by Jim Carrey as a satanist rock musician.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Dust-up
Answer: Wes Block
Wes Block is a flawed character who finds himself drawn deeply into the seedy sex lives of nocturnal New Orleans residents. When the victims of the killer are found to have had some type of connection to Block himself, he begins to doubt his ability to find the killer. Clint's real-life daughter Alison appears as his on-screen daughter in "Tightrope".
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Characters
Answer: "I never cared much for Hoosiers, neither."
Granny and her clan were Jayhawkers and "proud of it!" Being a native Hoosier, I just thought it was cool that Indiana was mentioned.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Westerns
Answer: Meryl Streep
Kind of a strange pairing.
From Quiz: Clint Eastwood Movies
Answer: Lago
Clint drifts into 'Lago' and brings Hell with him.
From Quiz: Clint's Westerns
Answer: Unforgiven
Clint was nominated for his portrayal of William Munny in 'Unforgiven', but lost to Pacino for 'Scent of a Woman'. Robbery, IMHO.
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Answer: In the Line of Fire
John Malkovich couldn't be better. Clint ain't bad himself.
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