29 Best Clint Eastwood Movies to watch free
Clint Eastwood is one of the Coolest "actors who cant act" ever in my book. Clint doesn't need to know how to act. His steely gaze and gaunt chiselled face has graced many a spaghetti western without even the need for a name to the character he played (hence his dominion of public association with the phrase "The Man With No Name"). The Man With No Name is a Marketed phrase used by the Spaghetti Western Industry, but Clint just took it as if it was his trademark (it was). Here's what Wikipedia has to say about this phrase;
"The Man With No Name (Italian: Uomo senza nome) is a stock character in western films, but the term usually applies specifically to the character (or possibly characters) played by American actor Clint Eastwood in what is often called "The Dollars Trilogy" directed by Sergio Leone."
Apart from his rise to Immensity as the Nameless Stranger in the Spaghetti Western series which has impregnated our lives so much, Clint Eastwood is also predominantly present in our minds as the vigilante cop with a vengeance; "Dirty Harry. Harry is an inimitable and idiosyncratic character whom i belive could not have been played by anyone else but Eastwood. A psychopath in his own manner, Harry's cool stonefaced killer instinct is allowed to express itself by inflicting death on the cold-blooded criminals who inhabit the plots of the Dirty Harry movies. I believe that the technique of using "Justified Violence" used by the Movie Industry to make killing seem ok (so long as the person fying "deserves it"), came tomaturity with the Dirty Harry saga.
Well Folks, if you haven't seen any of Clint's classics, then here they are for you in a one movieblogpost compilation. I have searched for and compiled as many of his most important movies as i could find for your enjoyment. Get yourself a pile of supplies piled up next to your sofa and some optrex for rinsing your eyes when they begin to sting, because this is going to be a marathon session.
Welcome to this mega collection of Clint Eastwood Movies
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
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In late 1963, an offer was made to Eastwood's co-star Eric Fleming on Rawhide to star in an Italian made western, originally to be named The Magnificent Stranger (A Fistful of Dollars) to be directed in a remote region of Spain by a relative unknown at the time, Sergio Leone. However, the money was not much, and Fleming always set his sights high on Hollywood stardom, and rejected the offer immediately
A variety of actors, including Charles Bronson, Steve Reeves, Richard Harrison, Frank Wolfe, Henry Fonda, James Coburn and Ty Hardin were considered for the main part in the film, and the producers established a list of lesser-known American actors, and asked the aforementioned Richard Harrison for advice. Harrison had suggested Clint Eastwood, whom he knew could play a cowboy convincingly. Harrison later said: "Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars, and recommending Clint for the part.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
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For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Clint Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio, the territory's most treacherous bandit. But his ruthless rival, Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), is determined to bring Indio in first ... dead or alive!
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High Plains Drifter (1973)
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976).
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Hang 'Em High (1968)
Oklahoma. 1873. Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood), mistaken for a rustler and killer, is lynched on the spot by crooked lawman Captain Wilson (Ed Begley) and a rampaging band of vigilantes. But as Wilson and his gang flee the scene, there's one very important detail they've overlooked: Cooper is still alive! Out for justice - and vengeance - Cooper takes on the job of deputy marshal ... and, one by one, tracks down the nine men who "done him wrong."
Jed Cooper is accused by nine men of killing one of their neighbors and stealing his cattle. When he fails to convince them of his innocence, they hang him. Fortunately, there is a U.S. Marshal in the area and he saves Cooper, who is then brought to Fort Grant for trial. Eventually, it is discovered that the man Cooper bought the cattle from was, in fact, the killer. Cooper is released, but still wants to get the nine men who hung him. The judge warns Cooper about taking the law into his own hands, who responds by saying that he knows the law, being a former lawman. The judge then offers Cooper a job as a Marshal. Cooper, while in a town picking up a prisoner, discovers one of the nine men and kills him after he draws on Cooper. When he returns to Fort Grant, Cooper learns that another member of the mob has turned himself in after learning of Cooper's innocence. He provides Cooper with the names of the rest and Cooper leaves to round them up. On his way to bring in the lynchers, Cooper is sidetracked by a report of another rustling and murder. Upon finding the rustlers, one of whom was in the posse that lynched Cooper, the posse wants to lynch them, but Cooper insists that they need to be tried and is left to bring them in on his own. Following a difficult road back to Fort Grant, the remaining members of the posse that hung him try to buy him off, then decide that the only way they can live free is to finish the job and kill him.
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Pale Rider (1985)
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Watch The Complete Dirty Harry Saga
Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry (1971).
In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.
This is the first movie with Clint Eastwood as Detective Harry Callaghan - the four sequels follow below.
Dirty Harry
Scorpio, a serial killer. Eastwood's iconic portrayal of the blunt-speaking, unorthodox detective set the style for a number of his subsequent roles, and the box-office success of the film led to the production of four equally successful sequels. The "alienated cop" motif was one subsequently imitated by a number of other films. This film features Eastwood intoning "You've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" (The line is often misquoted as "Do you feel lucky, punk?")
This movie became iconic, mirrored by other movies, especially the rest of the Dirty Harry films, because it was a portrayal of social protests, pointing out that it was easier for the justice system to protect potential suspects ahead of enforcing the rights of victims while ignoring citizens who were in danger or who had been murdered. It was the sixth-highest grossing film of 1971 after Fiddler on the Roof, Billy Jack, French Connection, Summer of '42, and Diamonds Are Forever.
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Magnum Force (1973)
Starring Clint Eastwood as Dirty harry. first of the four sequels to Dirty harry
Magnum Force (1973), directed by Ted Post. The main theme of this film is vigilante justice, and the plot revolves around a group of renegade traffic cops who are executing criminals who have avoided conviction in court. Despite Harry's penchant for strong-arm methods, he does not tolerate coldblooded murder of the accused and resolves to stop the killers. In this film Harry's catch-phrase is "A man's got to know his limitations." Although a box-office success like its predecessor, the film was given negative publicity due to the tone of violence. It was the sixth-highest grossing film of 1973 and a commercial hit.
The Enforcer (1976)
Second of four sequels to the movie "Dirty Harry
The Enforcer (1976), directed by James Fargo. In this film, Harry is teamed up with an inexperienced female partner Kate Moore (Tyne Daly), and takes on a terrorist ring calling themselves The People's Revolutionary Strike Force. The film contains feminist themes and is generally considered more "politically correct" than its predecessor.
Harry opposes introducing inexperienced inspectors to the dangers of police work, whether male or female, and sees the homicide department as too dangerous for his new partner, who worked until recently in Records. He has nothing against female police officers; he simply feels that Moore is too green. However, "by the book" Inspector Moore, though starting out overenthusiastic, proves herself valuable, and matures quickly, earning Harry's respect in the process.
By the time this film was released, the Dirty Harry series had gained attention and critical admiration, such that the makers of The Enforcer knew they had a bankable movie on their hands. With the depiction of a female inspector as Harry's partner and its realistic portrayal of the dangers of police work, this movie was a huge hit, appealing to both men and women, and it holds up today as one of the best in the series.
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Sudden Impact (1983)
Dirty Harry is back in the third sequel
Sudden Impact (1983), directed by Clint Eastwood. The film's plot revolves around an aging, but still bitter "Dirty" Harry Callahan being sent to a small town to follow up a lead in a murder case, which leads him directly to a rape victim who is out to avenge herself and her catatonic sister by killing the people who sexually assaulted them. It is best known for the phrase "Go ahead, make my day," which is often incorrectly attributed to the first film.
The Dead Pool (1988)
Clint Eastwood stars as Dirty Harry in the fourth and final sequel to Dirty Harry
The Dead Pool (1988), directed by Buddy Van Horn. In the final film of the series, Harry finds out about a game called Dead Pool, in which people bet on which celebrity will die next. Eventually, someone tries to rig the game by killing certain celebrities. The film was not a commercial success, and it remains the final entry in the series due to Eastwood's refusal to reprise the character, feeling his age would make Harry a parody. Ironically, Clint Eastwood's age in this film is close to the age Dirty Harry was supposed to be in the original movie.
The Gauntlet (1977)
Ben Shockley is a Phoenix cop assigned to go to Las Vegas, so that he can escort a prostitute named Gus Mally who is supposed to testify in a mob trial. Shockley assumes he got the assignment because he can get the job done. But his bosses have been bought off, and the only reason he was chosen was because he is expendable and unreliable. In addition, the Mally doesn't want to go with him because she knows that going along is the equivalent of signing her own death warrant. Odds of their safe arrival are not good, and there is even a line in Vegas on whether they will make it alive. Everyone's out to get them. Traps are everywhere. So Shockley and Gus are forced to rely on instinct and ingenuity if they are going to make it to Phoenix alive.
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And if you still ain't had enough - here are some more of Clint Eastwoods movies; Watch till ya drop!
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Clint Eastwood...the deadliest man alive...takes on a whole army with two guns and a fistful of dynamite!
Starring: Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood.
Set in 19th century Mexico, an American mercenary rescues a nun from her would-be molesters. He then learns that the chance meeting is a stroke of luck for him because she knows a good deal about the officers in the garrison he plans to invade. He eventually discovers that she is not a nun. a romance develops as both fortress walls and myths explode in this powerful adventure drama.
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Directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. The script was written by Albert Maltz and is based on the 1966 Southern Gothic novel written by Thomas Cullinan, originally titled 'A Painted Devil'. Close to the end of the American Civil War, injured Yankee soldier John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a twelve year old girl from an all-girl boarding school in Louisiana. At first the all-female staff and pupils are scared, but as John starts to recover, he charms them one by one and the sexually repressed atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit...
Where Eagles Dare
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The mission is clear. Get in. Get the general. Get out. Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to trust nothing - including the search-and-rescue orders just issued.Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood go Where Eagles Dare in this twisty World War II thriller. Known for fiery dramatic roles, Burton ventures into the realm of movie pyrotechnics with dynamic efficiency. And Eastwood's cool-fire presence heightens one searing action sequences after another.
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 World War II action-adventure spy film starring Clint Eastwood Richard Burton, and Mary Ure. It was directed by Brian G. Hutton and shot on location in Austria and Bavaria. Best-selling author Alistair MacLean wrote the novel and the screenplay of Where Eagles Dare at the same time. It was his first screenplay; both film and book became commercial successes. The production, which hired some of the top moviemaking professionals of the period, is considered a classic of its genre. Major contributors included Yakima Canutt, the legendary Hollywood stuntman, who as second-unit director shot most of the action scenes, famed British stuntman Alf Joint who doubled for Burton in some of the most thrilling sequences such as the aerial fight on top of the cable car, award-winning conductor and composer Ron Goodwin who wrote the memorable film score and future Oscar-nominee, Arthur Ibbetson who created the movie's vivid cinematography.
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
with Clint Eastwood,Donald Sutherland and Telly Savalas
A fortune in Nazi-confiscated bullion! Clint Eastwood reunites with the director of his Where Eagles Dare for this alternately action-filled and tongue-in-cheek tale of GIs who decide to get something extra out of the war. Eastwood, plays Lt. Kelly, mastermind of a scheme to slip behind enemy lines and steal the loot.
Kelly's Heroes is an offbeat 1970 war film about a group of World War II soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. Directed by Brian G. Hutton, who also directed the 1968 World War II drama Where Eagles Dare, the film stars Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, and Carroll O'Connor, with lesser roles played by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, and Stuart Margolin. The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin.
Kelly (Clint Eastwood), a former lieutenant demoted to private as a scapegoat, captures Colonel Dankhopf (David Hurst) of German Intelligence. When Kelly notices his prisoner has a gold bar in his briefcase, he gets him drunk to try to get information about the gold. Before he is accidentally killed by an attacking German Tiger tank, the drunken Dankhopf blurts out that there is a cache of 14,000 gold bars (worth $16,000,000) stored in a bank vault 30 miles behind enemy lines in the town of Clermont.
Kelly recruits the rest of his platoon, including skeptical Master Sergeant "Big Joe" (Telly Savalas), to sneak off and steal it. Eventually, others have to be recruited (or invite themselves) into the scheme, such as an opportunistic supply sergeant "Crapgame" (Don Rickles); a proto-beatnik Sherman tank commander, "Oddball" (Donald Sutherland); and a number of stereotypical G.I.s presented as competent, but war-weary veterans.
Paint your Wagon 1969
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.
Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
Starring: Sondra Locke and Clint Eastwood.
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best barroom brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orang-utan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, two sneaky off-duty cops and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
(Sequel to any which way but loose;)
They're back. Philo Beddoe, the easygoing truck driver and bare-knuckle brawler, and his 165-pound orangutan friend Clyde get into more mischief in this faster and funnier sequel to Every Which Way But Loose.
Clint Eastwood stars again as Philo, now thinking he'll "retire" from fighting. But a new contender lures him back- and mobsters kidnap Philo's girl (Sondra Locke) to ensure he'll turn up for the showdown.
Ruth Gordon as Ma, Geofrrey Lewis as Orville and those hapless motorcycle morons called the Black Widows all return in fine form. Songs by Glen Campbell, Jim Stafford and Snuff Garrett make up a tuneful country score, including an Eastwood/Ray Charles duet on "Beers to You." As ever, Clyde steals the show, particularly in a courtship scene with the lady orangutan of his dreams. Any Which Way You Can, and you'll be entertained.
Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
Tightrope (1984)
Clint Eastwoood stars as a single-father cop lured by the promise of kinky sex
Firefox (1982)
The Rookie (1990)
Clint Eastwood plays a veteran cop who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German criminal
Unforgiven (1992)
Clint Eastwood takes on the role of an aging ex-gunfighter long past his prime. The film, also starring such esteemed actors as Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris, laid the groundwork for such later westerns as Deadwood by re-envisioning established genre conventions in a more ambiguous and unromantic light. A great success both in terms of box office and critical acclaim, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Eastwood and Best Original Screenplay for David Webb Peoples. It won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. As of 2009, Unforgiven is the last western film that Eastwood has made.
In the Line of Fire 1993
Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.
Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the thriller In the Line of Fire, co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. As of 2009 it is his last acting role in a film he did not direct himself. This film was a blockbuster and among the top 10 box-office performers in that year. That same year Eastwood directed and starred with Kevin Costner in A Perfect World. In 1995, Eastwood received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the Academy Awards. He continued to expand his repertoire by playing opposite Meryl Streep in the love story The Bridges of Madison County (1995). Based on a best-selling novel, it was also a hit at the box-office and grossed $182 million.[102] The film, which Eastwood also produced and directed, was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama as well as an Oscar.
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Absolute Power. (1997)
A career thief witnesses a horrific crime involving the U.S. President.
Space Cowboys
Starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner
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At January 20, 2010 3:38 AM ,
Horus said...
Although this post is called "29 best Clint Eastwood movies", there are inf act 30 movies to date on the post, due to the fact that i added another movie (where eagles dare) after posting. Ther might be a couple more movies added too at a later date.
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