For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

Among these are the. 22 rimfire, a caliber popular for target shooting and teaching novice shooters ;. 38 Special and. 357 Magnum, known for its police use ; the. 44 Magnum, famous from Clint Eastwood's " Dirty Harry " films ; and the. 45 Colt, used in the Colt revolver of the Wild West.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that film was " the best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while ", and praised Eastwood's directing and the way he intricately juxtaposes the old West and the new.

The film met with generally positive reviews ; Roger Ebert gave it three and a half stars and described it as a " very good film ... with moments evoking great emotion ", while Variety Todd McCarthy wrote, " Inspirational on the face of it, Clint Eastwood's film has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion.

Hereafter received mixed reviews from critics, with the consensus at Rotten Tomatoes being, " Despite a thought-provoking premise and Clint Eastwood's typical flair as director, Hereafter fails to generate much compelling drama, straddling the line between poignant sentimentality and hokey tedium.

Bulloch based his performance on Clint Eastwood's portrayal of the Man with No Name in A Fistful of Dollars ; similar to the Western character, Bulloch cradled the gun prop, made the character seem ready to shoot, slightly tilted his head, and stood a particular way.

In 2011, DiCaprio starred in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, a biopic about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial first director of the FBI.

The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, although some notable examples ( e. g. the later Westerns of John Ford or Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven ) are more morally ambiguous.

Nishi would later die in 1945 as an officer stationed in the defense of the island of Iwo Jima, and as such is a main character in Clint Eastwood's film, Letters from Iwo Jima.

The final scenes of Clint Eastwood's " Dirty Harry " were filmed in Larkspur at the old Hutchison Gravel Quarry ( now Larkspur Landing )

* In the 1986 war film Heartbreak Ridge, Clint Eastwood's character, Sgt.

He followed this with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ( 1991 ), the Oliver Stone-directed JFK ( 1991 ), The Bodyguard ( 1992 ), and Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World ( 1993 ), all of which provided box office or critical acclaim.

The Washington Times obituary of Spillane said of Hammer, " In a manner similar to Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, Hammer was a cynical loner contemptuous of the ' tedious process ' of the legal system, choosing instead to enforce the law on his own terms.

They are also used by sport shooters and have been featured in numerous Hollywood movies, particularly Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry.

One of the first films about a fan being disturbingly obsessed with their idol was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut film, Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), about a California disc jockey pursued by a disturbed female listener ( Jessica Walter ).

Australian actor Damon Herriman played Hauptmann in Clint Eastwood's Hoover biopic J. Edgar.

In Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, he played the role of the ill-fated hustler murdered by an art dealer, played by Kevin Spacey.

Although Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood's signature role, he was not a top contender for the part.

* Tadamichi Kuribayashi and Takeichi Nishi in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 ).

* Walt Kowalski in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino ( 2008 ).

In Episode XXVI, Jack confronts a gang who destroyed his sandals, using Clint Eastwood's lines from A Fistful of Dollars, but substituting ' footwear ' for ' donkey.

The South African a cappella group Overtone recorded the song for director Clint Eastwood's movie Invictus ( 2009 ).

Some film critics, including Roger Ebert and Jim Emerson, criticized Medved for mentioning the " right to die / assisted suicide " theme in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby and these critics viewed Medved's statements as a plot spoiler.

In early 2011, Watts was cast in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the starring role.

His brief but memorable appearance in the Clint Eastwood movie, Hang ' Em High eventually led to his role as Dan Williams in Hawaii Five-O, popularizing the catch phrase " Book ' em Danno.

During that period, he also appeared in several films, including The Wild Angels ( 1966 ), The War Wagon, The Trip ( 1967 ), Psych-Out, Will Penny ( 1968 ), and the early Clint Eastwood film, Hang ' Em High ( 1968 ) as a rustler / murderer.

Following the cancellation of The Farmer's Daughter in 1966, Stevens appeared in several movies: A Guide for the Married Man ( 1967 ) with Walter Matthau, Hang ' Em High with Clint Eastwood, 5 Card Stud with Dean Martin, and Madigan with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark, all in 1968.

He also wrote the screenplay for the 1973 film High Plains Drifter, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

Bizarrely, the sequence includes a shot of one of the characters watching High Plains Drifter in which Clint Eastwood is spun around in the barber's chair, shooting dead three men.

During his career, Hale was noted for his supporting character roles in such movies as Up Periscope with James Garner, The Fifth Musketeer, The Lady Takes a Flyer, stock car racing film Thunder in Carolina, The Giant Spider Invasion, The Sea Chase with John Wayne, Hang ' Em High with Clint Eastwood, and The West Point Story with James Cagney as well as The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck.

Clint and Bobby first teamed up as part Christchurch's Hornby High School rock band called Outer Control.

He played the prosecutor in Fort Grant in the 1968 Clint Eastwood movie, Hang ' Em High.

Clint Eastwood was also approached by Leone for the role, but he saw it as just a different take of the same character he had already played in the Dollars Trilogy, and he also wanted to part with the Italian film industry, so he declined the offer and starred in Hang ' Em High.

In 1967, he produced the Clint Eastwood western film, Hang ' Em High.

Lewis has worked frequently with actor-director Clint Eastwood in several films including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Pink Cadillac, Any Which Way You Can, Bronco Billy, Every Which Way but Loose, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and High Plains Drifter.

Steve Coogan, John Richmond, Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets, Maartin Allcock of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull, Brendan and Martin Coogan all attended the local Cardinal Langley Grammar School, later known as Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School.

At least two such notable instances were the characters of Eaglebauer in Rock ' n ' Roll High School ( which was then given to Clint Howard ) and Spaz in Meatballs, both of which Deezen turned down in order to film 1941.

High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American Western film, with a hint of the supernatural, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood and produced by Robert Daley for The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures.

His movie credits include the Clint Eastwood westerns Hang ' Em High, Play Misty for Me, and High Plains Drifter.

Quade starred in High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Every Which Way But Loose, and Any Which Way You Can with Clint Eastwood.

* In the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales, starring Clint Eastwood, a shop keeper states " He's a hoosier ," much to the disgust of an elderly customer.

The event inspired the 1976 Clint Eastwood film The Outlaw Josey Wales.

His raids culminated in the Sacking of Osceola, in which Lane's forces killed at least nine men, then pillaged, looted, and then burned the town ; these events inspired the novel Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter, which was the basis for the 1976 Clint Eastwood movie The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Kaufman had commenced directing The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ) but was notoriously fired under Clint Eastwood's command by producer Bob Daley due to strong disagreements between the two.

From 1976 to 1983, she appeared in six films with then partner Clint Eastwood, starting with The Outlaw Josey Wales, and ending with the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact, where she played a serial killer seeking revenge for a past rape.

* The Outlaw Josey Wales, a 1976 western film starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, and Sondra Locke

Clint Eastwood's Missourian character in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ) took up the Confederate cause after Redleg Jayhawkers from Kansas killed his son and raped and murdered his wife.

McKinney was also recognizable for his performances in seven Clint Eastwood films, most notably as Union cavalry commander Captain " Redlegs " Terrill in The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Clint Eastwood directed and starred in a 1976 film adaptation of Josey Wales, retitled The Outlaw Josey Wales after the book was sent to his offices by Carter as an unsolicited submission and Eastwood's partner read and put his support behind it.