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Eastwood's and performance
Eastwood's nineteen-minute installment took only a few days to shoot, but his performance did not please the critics, one writing that " no other performance of his is quite so ' un-Clintlike ' ".
The film was highly acclaimed with critics, such as Jay Cocks in Time, Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice, and Archer Winsten in the New York Post all praising the film, as well as Eastwood's directorial skills and performance.
Although a number of critics praised Eastwood's performance as Dirty Harry, such as Jay Cocks of Time magazine who described him as " giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character ", the film was also widely criticized and accused of being fascistic.
Joe Kidd received a mixed reception, with Roger Greenspun of The New York Times writing that it was unremarkable, with foolish symbolism and sloppy editing, although he praised Eastwood's performance.
People magazine likened Eastwood's performance to " Luke Skywalker trapped in Dirty Harry's Soul ".
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.
Jay Cocks of Time praised Eastwood's performance as Dirty Harry, describing him as " giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character ".
" Critics such as Jay Cocks in Time, Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice, and Archer Winsten in the New York Post all praised Eastwood's directorial skills and the film, including his performance in the scenes with Walter.
Critically, Eastwood's performance was poorly received and was named " Worst Actor of the Year " by the Harvard Lampoon and the film was criticized for its level of violence.
Eastwood's acting performance was noted by critics to the extent that Clint himself believed it was Oscar worthy.
He mused, " As the gritty, raspy-voiced sergeant, Mr. Eastwood's performance is one of the richest he's ever given.

Eastwood's and third
He played lead to Clint Eastwood's third billing in Ambush at Cimarron Pass, which Eastwood is quoted as saying was " probably the lousiest western ever made.

Eastwood's and was
In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.
He was a considerable influence on Eastwood's own career as a director, and Eastwood's film Unforgiven is dedicated " for Don and
According to Eastwood's official biography, a man named Chuck Hill was instrumental in securing employment for Eastwood at Universal ; Hill, who had contacts in Hollywood, managed to sneak Eastwood into one of Universal's studios, where he showed him to cameraman Irving Glassberg.
Glassberg arranged for Eastwood to have an audition with Arthur Lubin who, although impressed with Eastwood's appearance and frame, initially questioned his acting skills, remarking, " He was quite amateurish.
Eastwood's first acting role was an uncredited bit part as a laboratory assistant in the 1955 film Revenge of the Creature.
The film was controversial for its portrayal of violence, Eastwood's role creating the prototype for the macho cop of the Dirty Harry film series.
A number of critics thought Eastwood's directing was " as derivative as it was expressive ", with Arthur Knight of the Saturday Review remarking that Eastwood had " absorbed the approaches of Siegel and Leone and fused them with his own paranoid vision of society ".
Eastwood's acting was noted by critics, but was overshadowed by Bridges who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Eastwood's next film The Eiger Sanction ( 1975 ) was based on Trevanian's critically acclaimed spy novel of the same name.
Kaufman was fired by producer Bob Daley under Eastwood's command, resulting in a fine reported to be around $ 60, 000 ( US $ in dollars ) from the Directors Guild of America — who subsequently passed new legislation reserving the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging and replacing a director.
Upon release in August 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales was widely acclaimed, with many critics and viewers seeing Eastwood's role as an iconic one that related to America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War.
The film, culminating in a shootout on Alcatraz island, was considerably shorter than the previous Dirty Harry films at 95 minutes, but was a major commercial success grossing $ 100 million ( US $ in dollars ) worldwide to become Eastwood's highest-grossing film to date.
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.
With a production cost of $ 20 million, ( US $ in dollars ) it was Eastwood's highest budget film to date.
" The film was a box office failure, earning less than half its $ 55 million ( US $ in dollars ) budget and was Eastwood's worst-performing film of the 1990s aside from White Hunter Black Heart, which had a limited release.
On October 24, 1975, Kaufman was fired at Eastwood's command by producer Bob Daley.

Eastwood's and by
In late 1963, Eastwood's co-star on Rawhide, Eric Fleming, rejected an offer to star in an Italian-made western called A Fistful of Dollars, to be directed in a remote region of Spain by the then relatively unknown Sergio Leone.
Upon release the film received major recognition in France and is considered one of Eastwood's finest works by the French.
During a group appearance by the cast on television's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Leno ran a brief clip from Garner and Eastwood's lengthy saloon fistfight during Eastwood's Maverick appearance in " Duel at Sundown " over forty years earlier ; Tommy Lee Jones and Eastwood also stage a brief bar brawl in Space Cowboys.
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 ).
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.
In Yojimbo, the protagonist defeats a man who carries a gun, while he carries only a knife and a sword ; in the equivalent scene in Fistful, Eastwood's pistol-wielding character survives being shot by a rifle by hiding an iron plate under his clothes to serve as a shield against bullets.
Filming commenced in Monterey, California in September 1970, and although this was Eastwood's debut as film director, Siegel stood by to help.
In a Clint Eastwood's 1982 movie Honkytonk Man, his character meets Bob Wills ( played by Johnny Gimble, an original Texas Playboy ), who is recording in a studio with other former band members.
In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors such as Joe Dante ( Gremlins, Small Soldiers, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace ), Robert Zemeckis ( the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit ), Brian Levant ( the Flintstones duology ), Matthew Robbins (* batteries not included ), Penelope Spheeris ( the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals ), Brad Silberling ( Casper ), Don Bluth ( An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), Clint Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Hereafter-except for the last named the Amblin logo does not appear on Eastwood's films, or on Schindler's List & True Grit ), Gil Kenan ( Monster House ), Martin Campbell ( The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro ), Richard Donner ( The Goonies ), Jan de Bont ( Twister ), Barry Sonnenfeld ( the Men in Black trilogy ), Martin Scorsese ( Cape Fear ), Joe Johnston ( Jurassic Park III ), J. J. Abrams ( Super 8 ), The Coen Brothers ( True Grit ), and Simon Wells ( An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and We're Back!
The film's protagonist, an unconventional ronin played by Toshirō Mifune, bears a striking resemblance to Eastwood's character: both are quiet, gruff, eccentric strangers with a strong but unorthodox sense of justice and extraordinary proficiency with a particular weapon ( in Mifune's case, a katana ; for Eastwood, a revolver ).
Curb organized his own musical group, The Mike Curb Congregation in the 1960s ; they had a Top 40 pop hit in early 1971 with the title cut from their album Burning Bridges ( written and composed by Lalo Schifrin and Mike Curb ) which was used as the theme of Clint Eastwood's film Kelly's Heroes.
Indeed, Sledge Hammer is most strongly influenced by Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan character.
Inspired by Clint Eastwood's no-nonsense approach to law enforcement in the Dirty Harry films, teenager Alan Spencer dreamed up the idea of a police officer whose approach was even more over-the-top, to the point of comical absurdity.
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.
* His character, played by Michael Zelniker, has a prominent role in " Bird ", Clint Eastwood's 1988 film about Charlie Parker.
Bronco Billy was also made with a different company formed by Robert Daley ( who produced 15 of his films from 1971-1980 ), due to Eastwood's divorce at the time.
Conversely, Eastwood's annual Chinese New Year Celebrations have broadened its appeal by incorporating concurrent Korean New Year traditions, and have accordingly been renamed the Lunar New Year Festivities.

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