Today is Clint's birthday (he turns 96 today - can you believe that?). Here are what I consider his Top 5 movies.
1. Unforgiven
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Dirty Harry
4. Fistful of Dollars
5. (tie) Kelly's Heroes (tie) Where Eagles Dare (tie) Outlaw Josey Wales
Really liked Grand Torino but the ones I picked were classics. Also liked The Eiger Sanction but the book was better. The other Dirty Harry films didn't make the list because that character became cartoonish as it went along. Used to have The Outlaw Josey Wales as my number one but Sondra Locke's presence really detracts from the film.
Never understood why he thought she was good at the craft.
ReplyDeleteHe was good as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide from 1959 -- he was also an amazing director -- he did 39 movies! I will have to get a hold of some old Rawhide episodes. I think I can still remember all of of Frankie Laine's lyrics to the theme from Rawhide.
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