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Two Mules for Sister Sara: Directed by Don Siegel. With Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manolo Fábregas, Alberto Morin. When a former Civil War soldier saves a nun from a gang of bandits, they team up to help the Mexicans in their war against the French.
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Set in Mexico, nun Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine) is rescued...
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Just after the American Civil War, a former Northern soldier named Hogan rides up on a naked woman about to be raped by bandits. He kills the bandits, and the woman dons a habit, revealing herself as a nun. Sister Sara begs his continuing protection from French soldiers who are tracking her as a known Juarista, raising money to assist Mexican revol...
Alberto Morin as Gen. LeClaireDevelopment
Budd Boetticher, a long term-resident of Mexico renowned for his series of Randolph Scott westerns, wrote the original 1967 screenplay that was bought with the provision that he would direct. Boetticher had planned the film for Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr, who had played a man of action and a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison. Kerr's character was a member of the Mexican aristocracy escaping the vengeance of the Mexican Revolution, with Mitchum's cowboy protecting her as he led her to safe...
Casting
Eastwood had been shown the script by Elizabeth Taylor (at the time, the wife of Richard Burton) during the filming of Where Eagles Dare; she hoped to play the role of Sister Sara. It was initially offered to her, but she had to turn down the role because she wanted to shoot in Spain where Burton was making his latest film. Sister Sara was supposed to be Mexican, but Shirley MacLaine was cast instead. Although they were initially unconvinced with her pale complexion, Eastwood believed that th...
Filming
The film was shot over 65 days in Mexico and cost around $4 million.Many of the cast and crew, including MacLaine, were stricken by illness while filming, due to having to adjust to the food and water in Mexico. Bruce Surtees was a camera operator on the film, and acted as a go-between for Siegel and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa; this led to his working on Siegel's next film The Beguiled. Figueroa used many photographic filtersfor effects in the film. Eastwood revealed that he actually ki...
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When gunslinger Hogan (Clint Eastwood) discovers a group of men attempting to rape a young nun, Sara (Shirley MacLaine), he shoots them dead and rescues the woman.
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Set in Mexico, nun Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine) is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan (Clint Eastwood), who is on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort.
Two Mules for Sister Sara. A drifter rescues a nun from an assault in Mexico and agrees to take her to safety - but neither is who they are pretending to be in this comic Western adventure directed by Don Siegel (Dirty Harry,The Shootist). 4,245. IMDb 7.01 h 44 min1970X-RayPG. Adventure • Drama •Exciting•Gritty.
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