Eastwood’s take on a different sort of best seller, John Berendt’s recounting of a murder among the elite of Savannah, Georgia,Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evilfinds Eastwood trucking to the modern South and exploring both a real-life mystery and the local color. Yet Eastwood’s p...
“Hang ‘Em High,” which featured Eastwood playing an American counterpart to the Man With No Name--”the hero (who) can shoot a man in the back,” he says--and “Coogan’s Bluff,” which featured an Eastwood performance that prompted Vincent Canby of the New York Times to...
Well, those days are long gone. Clint Eastwood—that maligned, critic-punished, low-graded, scoffed-at, cast-off, spaghetti Western-making,Dirty Harry“fascist” (critic Pauline Kael’s term), male-chauvinist, robot-faced, talentless apex of nadir—has only gone on to become the biggest supe...