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Hollywood icon and legend Clint Eastwood has touched generations of filmgoers for over half a century. In honor of Eastwood's longstanding 35-year relationship with Warner Bros through Malpaso Productions, WHV is releasing a definitive boxset that includes Eastwood’s entire filmography at the studio from Where Eagles Dare (1968) through Gran Torino (2008) all packaged in an elegant giftset. Also included is an all-new short film about Eastwood’s life and Hollywood career produced by…
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Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros. Customer reviews:
Average Rating: 3.5 Total Reviews: 4
(Alan W. Petrucelli, 2009-12-11) He's a big star, but Clint Eastwood's place in Hollywood is about to get bigger . . . while Warner Home Video will pocket some big change. [insert drum roll here] Coming on February 16, 2010: Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros., which the studio flaks are promising will be "a salute to a true motion picture legend . . . the largest single artist box set ever." Were you expecting anything else from the studio who gushes Eastwood's "illustrious motion picture career has spanned more than a half century and has touched generations of filmgoers." And, oh yes, a man who's films have grossed nearly $2 billion at the domestic box office. The collection, considered the largest feature film box set ever released for a single artist, contains 34 Eastwood films from the Warner library, including ( of course, or you wouldn't reading this) the Dirty Harry movies. And please keep in mind that these are WB flicks only . . . no Paint Your Wagon here. The 35th film is The Eastwood Factor, an intimate short film from Time critic and film historian Richard Schickel, which, the flaks insist "presents Eastwood in a way he's rarely seen---visiting film locations or sites where his movies were created, and on the Warner lot visiting the costume department and Eastwood Scoring Stage, as well as at his home. Eastwood's candid, intelligent and often humorous interviews about his body of work and the choices he made, along with Schickel's selection of scenes from his movies (including his upcoming Invictus), results in an up-close and personal portrait of one of the great icons of our era." Here's the icon with one of his most famous co-stars: Adds Schickel: "I've known Clint for most of the time he's been at Warner Bros. I was fortunate to be able to wander around the Warner lot with him and hear his reminiscences. To be able to show him in the places where he works and lives and feels most comfortable is, I think, a unique opportunity." To make sure fans are willing to shell out the $179.98 for the set, a sampling of the documentary is scheduled to run "on a minimum of 10,000 screens" nationwide in the first quarter of 2010. To make sure things don't head south, the Eastwood event will coincide with the publication of a 288-page book (also from Richard Schickel), ingenuously entitled Clint: A Retrospective. The book will shine as example of cross-marketing: A 20-minute version of the full-length documentary will accompany each book. In a perfect world, all would be unforgiven.
(calvinnme, 2009-12-10) Clint Eastwood has a long history with Warner Brothers that goes back forty years. You have to go back to 1975's Eiger Sanction to find a film he did not direct at the studio, and he only directed a total of five films in his entire career that were not made at Warner Brothers. Since Clint Eastwood's film career did not begin until long after the studio system died, this really is unique for a director and studio to have such a long relationship. As expensive as this set is, it is actually cheap per disc. That is because this is a repackaging of stock. Warner's is simply taking existing transfers and placing them in this set, mainly on two-sided discs. This can be somewhat annoying for those of us who have bought multi-film packages of Eastwood's Warner films. I list all of the films below, whether Eastwood directed or starred or did both, and a short synopsis on the older films. If I do not mention him starring, that means he did not appear in the film as an actor at all. Don't let that popular internet film database fool you with its ratings. People often rate some of Eastwood's lower key films poorly because they don't get what he was trying to do. If you come to "Bronco Billy" expecting Harry Callahan you'll be disappointed. If you come to it expecting a good film, then you won't be. I'd say this is a definite buy if you don't own any of Eastwood's films. If you do, it just depends on how many you own as to whether this big package deal is worth it. Do be aware that 16 of the 19 discs included are dual-sided. WHERE EAGLES DARE(1968) - starring Clint Eastwood, second billed to Richard Burton. A complex WWII film about soldiers on a mission to raid a castle and retrieve a captured officer. KELLY'S HEROES (1970) - starring Clint Eastwood A different WWII story. A group of soldiers are out to find a cache of German gold - for themselves. DIRTY HARRY (1971) - Starring Clint Eastwood. The original Dirty Harry film. MAGNUM FORCE (1973) - starring Clint Eastwood and Hal Holbrook. Dirty Harry is after a band of vigilante cops. Has the famous closing line "A man's got to know his limitations." THE ENFORCER (1976) - starring Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly. Dirty Harry has a female partner as he hunts down a terr orist organization THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALES (1976) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, costarring Sondra Locke. The violence of the Civil War turns a man into a renegade out for revenge. THE GAUNTLET (1977) - directed by and costarring Clint Eastwood and costarring Sondra Locke. Eastwood is a cop taking a prostitute to testify at a trial and there are powerful forces out to make sure that testimony never happens. EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978) - stars Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. A box office smash when released, Clint Eastwood in a pseudo-comedy costarring Clyde the orangutan. BRONCO BILLY (1980) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Costarring Sondra Locke. A good film, but underrated because Eastwood was showing his serious side. ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN (1980) - starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. Sequel to Every Which Way But Loose HONKEYTONK MAN - (1982) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Very much underrated and shows Eastwood's passion for music early in his directing career. FIREFOX (1982) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Good performance by Eastwood, but the Cold War plot and crude graphics have really aged this one. SUDDEN IMPACT (1983) - directed and starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. Locke stars as a crime victim after revenge in this Dirty Harry film. CITY HEAT (1984) - starring Clint Eastwood Burt Reynolds was nominated for a Raz zie for acting in this one. TIGHTROPE (1984) - starring Clint Eastwood and Genevieve Bujold PALE RIDER (1985) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood HEARTBREAK RIDGE (1986) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood BIRD (1988) - directed by Clint Eastwood The oldest of these films to not actually star Eastwood. Story of Jazz musician Charlie Parker. THE DEAD POOL (1988) - starring Clint Eastwood and Patricia Clarkson The last Dirty Harry film. PINK CADILLAC (1989) - starring Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters The most recent film in the bunch in which Eastwood does not direct. Not very good, but it was made to be light summer fare. WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART (1990) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood THE ROOKIE (1990) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood UNFORGIVEN (1992) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood - Best Picture Winner A PERFECT WORLD (1993) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (1995) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood ABSOLUTE POWER (1997) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (1997) - directed by Clint Eastwood TRUE CRIME (1999) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood SPACE COWBOYS (2000) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood BLOOD WORK (2002) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood MYSTIC RIVER (2003) - directed by Clint Eastwood - Best Picture Nominee MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood - Best Picture Winner LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006) directed by Clint Eastwood - Best Picture Nominee GRAN TORINO(2008) directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
(Anonymous, 2009-12-10) I can not wait for this item!! all of these are movies and I am 100% sure about that. this is aaaaaaaaaa huge deal. I am a 13 year-old boy and watched my first Clint Eastwood movie about 6 months ago which was Every Which Way But Loose, well unless you count Casper(yes he was in about 10 seconds of it). and so far I've watched the following in order from favorite to least favorite:Dirty Harry, Gran Torino, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, Space Cowboys, Escape From Alcatraz, For A Few Dollars More, Every Which Way But Loose, Bronco Billy, Changeling, Two Mules For Sister Sara, Any Which Way You Can, and Casper. All of these are some of my favorite movies(except Casper I didn't even like it that much when I was 6). I was going to ask for the Dirty Harry collection for Christmas until I saw this. All in all I want to see all these movies and can't wait.
(A. N. Hibdon, 2009-12-06) Looks great...my husband is a HUGE Clint Eastwood fan...I'm just curious as to WHAT this "collection" holds...Is it a biogrophy? A collection of movies? A book with some pictures? Hmmmmmmmmmmm. A bit more detail would be nice before paying $125.00 and not knowing what you're getting...