Favorite Clint Eastwood NON-Westerns

What about "Bronco Billy"? A different kind of Clint.

 

Blood Work was excellent, a undeservedly overlooked film.

Sudden Impact
Firefox
In The Line Of Fire

Any of the monkey movies. Hey, you gotta love the chimps!

 

Clint seemed right at home in that one...Hmmm, maybe those Rawhide day's...Fit him like a glove!

 

Shows you how long it's been since I watched the Dirty Harry series. I remember the unicorn.

 

I guess we are only counting the movies he has starred in which would rule out Bird and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil which he only directed. As with the western thread my Eastwood tastes differ from most, so here it goes:

1. Absoute Power - great cast, great supporting performances
2. A Perfect World - underated
3. White Hunter, Black Heart - based on John Huston filming the African Queen
4. Where Eagles Dare
5. In the Line of Fire
6. Kelly's Heroes - Yeap, I wish they could nix "Burning Bridges"
7. First three Dirty Harry movies
8. Blood Work

 

play misty for me.

 

I'm hard pressed to pick a favorite "Dirty Harry" movie, but "The Enforcer" has some great one liners from Clint. The scene where Harry's boss tell him he's being transferred to personnel he responds "Personnel???" "That's for a**holes!!!" Classic!!!!

 

I like the name he gave his dog in "Sudden Impact": Meathead.

"Harry, you're the only person I know who eats ketchup on a hot dog!"

 

In the Line of Fire

 

Escape from Alcatraz w/o question!!!!

Excellent movie!!

 

I could never imagine Clint as an ACTOR doing Shakespeare on the stage etc,but for me he's the greatest MOVIE star of the latter half of the 20th century.

 

The Gauntlet,all is great;from the music(Art Pepper) to the acting to the plot.

 

A Perfect World
In the Line of Fire
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Dirty Harry
Tightrope
Play Misty for Me
Escape from Alcatraz

 

Dirty Harry
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagles Dare
Escape From Alcatraz
Play Misty For Me
Honkytonk Man
Million Dollar Baby
Gran Torino
Space Cowboys ( I know. One of the lighter ones but I love it anyway)

 

Surprised no one else has mentioned Honkytonk Man yet as this is a music site.

And though still fairly recent, I found Gran Torino to be a great movie with Clint shining in the title role .

 

I do like the Gauntlet, but there has to be an easier way to stop a bus.

 

In The Line of Fire
Gran Torino
Dirty Harry
Bronco Billy
Escape from Alcatraz

 

The Beguiled is definitely one of the more bizarre movies in the Eastwood canon - but it's great!

In the Line of Fire is excellent
Like Blood Work (Is this the one with "Speed Zoo"? hilarious!)
Absolute Power
Play Misty For Me (Classic - would never be made today)

And ditto on all the great lines in the Dirty Harry films. I think it's the first one where he starts insulting the lady in the police chief's office.."Now let's miss so-and-so propositions me..." kills me every time!

 

For an uncredited bit part and if you like '50s science fiction monster movies, Tarantula is great fun.

 

Am I the only one who liked Gran Torino or Million Dollar Baby?

 

The Dirty Harry movies for sure.

 

Play Misty For Me was the first film Clint directed and a very good debut it was. In my view a much more effective film in terms of its topic compared to the more overblown, but much more succesful of course, Fatal Attraction...
Love Bronco Billy, which you could arguably class as an urban western there is a wonderful exchange in it when the Sondra Locke character asks Billy why he was in prison

Antoinette Lilly: Have you ever been married?

Bronco Billy McCoy: Sure. A long time ago.

Antoinette Lilly: Did you love her?

Bronco Billy McCoy: With all my heart. Sometimes that just isn't enough.

Antoinette Lilly: What happened?

Bronco Billy McCoy: I caught her in bed with my best friend.

Antoinette Lilly: What did you do to him?

Bronco Billy McCoy: I shot her.

Antoinette Lilly: What! What about him?

Bronco Billy McCoy: Nothing, he was my best friend!

 

I haven't seen all of his work, but I've liked Firefox since the early 1980s. Dirty Harry steals arguably the most awe-inspiring cinematic fighter plane ever seen, and Admiral Piett fails to get it back. How couldn't you love this film? It's very moody, tense and claustrophobic---a far cry from your average espionage picture of the era, if I recall, and the wise use of the Soviet air force general arguing with the Soviet civilian leadership was an excellent choice. I just wish the score could have been released.

As for Kelly's Heroes, it's such a crazy mish-mash of genres and tropes that one can't help but love it. Where else are you going to find Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland fighting the Wehrmacht to the visual and aural design of a high-noon Western showdown, complete with proto-hippies? I say keep"Burning Bridges"; it's part of the charm of that picture.

 

A couple folks have so far and I mentioned both in my post above ( #40)