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- High Plains Drifter (1973) The first of his much touted “revisionist westerns”(though, as said, the merit of that moniker is debatable), “High Plains Drifter” demonstrates that even from very early on, Eastwood had a keen understanding of his own cinematic persona – and the intelligence to see the ways he could weaponize and subvert that iconic image to explore the darker facets of the western as a whole.
- Pale Rider (1985) The four straight westerns Eastwood directed are usually all classified under the same umbrella of “revisionism,” but that’s not exactly accurate.
- Two Mules For Sister Sara (1970) Throughout their collaboration, Eastwood and Don Siegel made a few movies adjacent to the western while never quite fitting into it.
- Hang ‘Em High (1968) Eastwood began his career playing supporting roles in B-westerns before breaking big with “Rawhide,” one of the quintessential western TV shows that were so popular in the ‘50s and ‘60s and from which many a star made their name, including Steve McQueen (the type of show Tarantino wonderfully homaged in his latest film).
- Ambush at Cimarron Pass
- Joe Kidd
- Paint Your Wagon
- Honkytonk Man
- Two Mules For Sister Sara
- Hang 'Em High
- Pale Rider
- High Plains Drifter
- Cry Macho
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
After a few small (largely uncredited) supporting roles in cowboy flicks of the '50s and acquiring some name recognition with his role in the Rawhide TV series, Eastwood earned his first major Western movie role with 1958's Ambush at Cimarron Pass. Directed by Jodie Copelan,Ambush at Cimarron Pass follows a small Army patrol unit who reluctantly te...
Directed by John Sturges, Joe Kidd is a story about a disaffected ex-bounty hunter named Joe Kidd (Eastwood) hired by a wealthy landowner (Robert Duvall) to capture the Mexican revolutionary bandito Luis Chama (John Saxon). Taking advantage of Eastwood's recent success with the previous year's Dirty Harry, Joe Kidd typecasts Eastwood as a law-break...
A Western musical based on the Broadway play of the same name, Paint Your Wagon (1969) places Eastwood in a film genre (musical) that was somewhat alienating to the typical Eastwood fan at this point in his career. Set in a mining camp in the California Gold Rush, Paint Your Wagon follows the story of Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin), a prospector who happe...
Speaking of music, Honkytonk Man features Eastwood as Red, a country and Western singer who's dying of tuberculosis during the Great Depression. Endearingly, the film co-stars Eastwood with his son Kyle Eastwood -- brother of Scott Eastwood -- who plays Red's young nephew Whit, an aspiring musician who idolizes his uncle and accompanies him on a lo...
The second of Eastwood's five collaborations with Dirty Harry director Don Siegel, the American-Mexican film Two Mules For Sister Sarasees Eastwood co-starring with Shirley MacLaine who respectively play gunslinger Hogan and the young nun Sara. After rescuing Sara from being raped by a group of men, Hogan and Sara escape to nearby encampment of Mex...
Directed by Ted Post, Hang 'Em High is a 1968 American revisionist Western film starring Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an man who survives and escapes a lynching he didn't deserve. Subsequently hired by local lawmen as a federal marshal, Jed is granted a new lease on life, albeit with one caveat: he can't seek revenge against those who attempted to have ...
Directed and produced by Eastwood, Pale Rider is an American fantasy Western starring Eastwood as the enigmatic "Preacher," a figure of retributive justice who protects a small-town of gold miners against a violent band of thugs hired by local property owner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart). Intending to claim the gold miners' territory by force, LaHood...
Like the Man With No Name of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, Eastwood plays a drifter with no name in High Plains Drifter, a 1973 American Western also directed by Eastwood. Wandering -- or, rather, "drifting" -- into a small miner town, the drifter with no name finds that his gun-slinging skills are in high demand, due to a band of criminals terro...
A testament to Eastwood's amazing persistence as a filmmaker, Cry Macho stars a 91-year-old Eastwood as Mike Milo, a retired Texan rodeo star hired by his former boss Howard Polk (Dwight Yoakam) to rescue Polk's son, Rafa (Eduardo Minett), from the boy's alcoholic mother, Leta (Fernanda Urrejola), in Mexico. Unwilling to let her son go, Leta threat...
As the movie poster indicates, The Outlaw Josey Wales is a hot-blooded revenge tale about Josey Wales (Eastwood), a man who joins the Confederate Army to seek revenge against the Union soldiers who he watched murder his wife and child. After killing some of the men of Captain Terrill (Bill McKinney), Wales flees to Texas to start a new life for him...
1964 1h 39m R. 7.9 (233K) Rate. 65 Metascore. A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge. Director Sergio Leone Stars Clint Eastwood Gian Maria Volontè Marianne Koch. His first starring role and first collaboration with Sergio Leone.
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- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) The Good the Bad and the Ugly. R. Adventure. Western. Release Date. December 23, 1966. Director. Sergio Leone. Cast. Eli Wallach , Clint Eastwood , Lee Van Cleef , Aldo Giuffrè , Luigi Pistilli , Rada Rassimov.
- Unforgiven (1992) R. Western. Drama. Release Date. August 7, 1992. Director. Clint Eastwood. Cast. Clint Eastwood , Gene Hackman , Morgan Freeman , Richard Harris , Jaimz Woolvett.
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) A Fistful of Dollars. R. Western. Release Date. January 18, 1964. Director. Sergio Leone , Monte Hellman. Cast. Clint Eastwood , Marianne Koch , Gian Maria Volonte , Wolfgang Lukschy , Sieghardt Rupp , Joseph Egger.
- Pale Rider (1985) Released in 1985, Pale Rider is a revisionist Western film that nods to the traditions of the genre. At the time, it seemed like the Western movies that were once dearly loved were on the decline and had instead been eclipsed by the popularity of crime and thriller movies.
- Unforgiven (1992) The western to end all westerns. If “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is the apotheosis of the western golden age, then “Unforgiven” is the epitome of the revisionist western, which began roughly in the ‘70s when a new generation of filmmakers’ simultaneous adoration of the genre, aligned with their understanding of its questionable moral underpinnings, gave birth to some of the most rewarding, unique masterpieces of American cinema, such as “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” or “Heaven’s Gate.”
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Many critics and scholars have argued that “For a Few Dollars More” is the superior movie in the Dollars Trilogy: it has all the indelible imagery and sublime music that makes all of the movies classics, plus a tighter focus and little grace notes that are lacking in the other two.
- For a Few Dollars More (1965) There are many considerable leaps in quality from the first movie in the Dollars Trilogy to this one, “For a Few Dollars More”: Leone’s mastery of composition, pacing, and movement within the frame seems to have been supernaturally enhanced in the single year between this and his western debut (or, more likely, the higher budget allowed him to execute the visual brilliance he was always capable of).
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) As Andre Bazin said in one of his seminal essays, the inception of the western as a genre dates back to the very creation of cinema itself: one immediately follows the other.
4 days ago · The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967)97%. #1. Critics Consensus: Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances,...
May 11, 2024 · All of Clint Eastwood's Westerns have their merits, depending on the era in which it was made, the point it marks in Eastwood's career, and the viewer's taste. Some of his classic films...
