McCloud was loosely based on which Clint Eastwood film?
"who turned it down. Universal hired Dennis Weaver, who was well known as a ""western"" actor from ""Gunsmoke"". The pilot, ""Portrait of a Dead Girl"", aired on February 17, 1970, and established the premise by having McCloud escort a prisoner from New Mexico to New York City, only to become embroiled in solving a complicated murder case. This premise of ""a cowboy in the big city"" was adapted from the 1968 Don Siegel film, ""Coogan's Bluff"", starring Clint Eastwood. Herman Miller, who was responsible for the story of ""Coogan's Bluff"" and co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Riesner and Howard A."
"film presently has a score of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews, with an average grade of 7.1 out of 10. Brewster McCloud Brewster McCloud is a 1970 American comedy film & experimental film directed by Robert Altman. It concerns a young recluse (Bud Cort, as the title character) who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome, where he is building a pair of wings so he can fly. He is helped by his comely and enigmatic ""fairy godmother"", played by Sally Kellerman, as he becomes a suspect in a series of murders. The film was"
"Brewster McCloud Brewster McCloud is a 1970 American comedy film & experimental film directed by Robert Altman. It concerns a young recluse (Bud Cort, as the title character) who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome, where he is building a pair of wings so he can fly. He is helped by his comely and enigmatic ""fairy godmother"", played by Sally Kellerman, as he becomes a suspect in a series of murders. The film was shot on location in Houston, Texas. During the opening credits, shots of the downtown Houston skyline (with One Shell Plaza under construction) zoom"
"Denby compared Eastwood's directing style with that of ""Don Siegel's tawdry, urban-anxiety mode, slowed by episodes of rapt erotic stillness"", and stated that as actor he ""also gave his most complex and forceful performance to date."" Tightrope (film) Tightrope is a 1984 American suspense thriller produced by and starring Clint Eastwood and written and directed by Richard Tuggle. A young woman walking home from her birthday party is stalked by a man in distinctive sneakers. After she drops one of her presents, a police officer offers to escort her to her front door. The camera reveals that the policeman is"
"""Silent Running"" and Eastwood's second Dirty Harry film, ""Magnum Force"") before moving on to directing. Cimino's work on ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"" impressed Eastwood enough to ask him to work on the script for ""Magnum Force"" before ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"" began production. Cimino moved up to directing on the feature ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"" (1974). The film stars Clint Eastwood as a Korean War vet named ""Thunderbolt"" who takes a young drifter named ""Lightfoot"", played by Jeff Bridges, under his wing. When Thunderbolt's old partners try to find him, he and Lightfoot make a pact with them to pull one last big"
"McCloud (TV series) McCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years on the air it aired as part of the ""NBC Mystery Movie"" rotating wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television. The show was centered on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico, who was on loan to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator. The first choice for the role of McCloud was Fess Parker,"
"an eponymous film adaptation of John Berendt's book in 1997, directed by Clint Eastwood and featuring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack. After purchasing the rights to use the sculpture's likeness from Hayes, the studio created a fiberglass replica. The movie incorporated shots of the ""Bird Girl"" sculpture on its posters and in the film itself. After the film was completed the replica was sent to the Cliff Dwellers Club in Chicago, Illinois. Photographer Leigh sued Warner Bros. in November 1997 for copyright infringement over their shots of the ""Bird Girl"" replica in the cemetery, which were similar to Leigh's original"
"is the role of Marshal Jim Duncan in the Eastwood film ""High Plains Drifter"" (1973). Buddy Van Horn Buddy Van Horn (born August 20, 1929) is an American stunt coordinator and film director. He directed the Clint Eastwood films ""Any Which Way You Can"" (1980), ""The Dead Pool"" (1988), and ""Pink Cadillac"" (1989). A long-time stunt double for Eastwood, he was credited as the stunt coordinator on Eastwood's films from 1972 to 2011, and as second unit director on ""Magnum Force"" (1973) and ""The Rookie"" (1990). He was sometimes credited as Wayne Van Horn in the 1980s. He earlier doubled"
"Eastwood as a country western. Later on, Red Stovall (Clint Eastwood) suffers from tuberculosis at the Grand Ole Opry. He takes out on a stage to Nashville, Tennessee, Clint's son Kyle Eastwood is his nephew. The script was adapted slightly from the novel. A scene in the novel in which Red gives a reefer to his fourteen-year-old son (played by real-life son Kyle) was altered by Eastwood. The ending was also changed to a song playing on the radio written by Red on his death bed, shortly before his burial. The fourth ""Dirty Harry"" film ""Sudden Impact"" (1983), is widely"
"movie ""Any Which Way You Can"", one of the two hit movies Eastwood made with co-star Clyde the orangutan. Later on, he drives a Dark Maple Red Metallic 1980 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency 4-door sedan. In 1982, Eastwood also directed, produced and starred in the Cold War-themed ""Firefox"", based on a 1977 novel with the same name by British novelist Craig Thomas. Eastwood directed and starred in ""Honkytonk Man"", based on the novel by Clancy Carlile about an aspiring country music singer named Red Stovall, set during the Great Depression. Barry Corbin, who played Red's father in ""Honkytonk Man"", with Clint"
"before we could consider him bad at it. And acting isn't required of him in ""Magnum Force""."" Rotten Tomatoes sampled 20 reviewers and judged 80% of the reviews to be positive. Magnum Force Magnum Force is a 1973 American action thriller and the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan after the 1971 film ""Dirty Harry"". Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in the television series ""Rawhide"" and the feature film ""Hang 'Em High"", directed this second installment in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series. The screenplay was written by John Milius (who provided an uncredited rewrite for"
"Tightrope (film) Tightrope is a 1984 American suspense thriller produced by and starring Clint Eastwood and written and directed by Richard Tuggle. A young woman walking home from her birthday party is stalked by a man in distinctive sneakers. After she drops one of her presents, a police officer offers to escort her to her front door. The camera reveals that the policeman is wearing the same sneakers as the stalker. The next day, divorced New Orleans police detective Wes Block (Eastwood) is playing football with his daughters Penny and Amanda. They take in a stray dog, adding to the"
"Black Cloud Black Cloud is a 2004 American drama film directed and written by Rick Schroder. The film is Tim McGraw's film debut as an actor. Black Cloud (Eddie Spears), a young Navajo man, must take a journey of personal growth to prepare himself for a chance at boxing in the Olympics. When Eddie (Rick Schroder) returns to town with the rodeo and wants to rekindle his relationship with Black Cloud's girlfriend, Sammi (Julia Jones), Black Cloud confronts him and runs into trouble with the sheriff (Tim McGraw) after beating up Eddie who is Sammi's ex-boyfriend and the father of"
"Clint Eastwood's few ""amigos"" in the town of San Miguel. He later appeared in westerns such as ""I Giorni dell'ira"" (1967) opposite Lee Van Cleef, ""Anda muchacho, spara!"" (1971) and ""Dust in the Sun"" (1973) etc. However, after the Spaghetti western era of the late 1960s, in the 1970s he returned to appearing in primarily Spanish films and in contrast to the roles which dominated much of his career did appear in several Spanish comedy films often with slapstick humor as that genre grew popular in Latin cinema during this period. He died in Gran Canaria on May 16, 1980,"
"ten years, and set the prototype for the macho hero that Eastwood would play in the ""Dirty Harry"" films. The script of the film inspired the ""McCloud"" television series that starred Dennis Weaver. The DVD version of ""Coogan's Bluff"" is edited by approximately three minutes in all regions for unknown reasons. The missing scenes include Coogan receiving his assignment to return Ringerman from New York, a short scene in a hospital, and a scene in which Julie talks about Coogan's Bluff, a lookout point over the ocean near New York (the real Coogan's Bluff is a site on Manhattan Island"
"Blood Work (film) Blood Work is a 2002 American mystery thriller film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The film co-stars Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston. It is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Connelly. Eastwood won the Future Film Festival Digital Award at the Venice Film Festival. During a homicide investigation, FBI agent Terry McCaleb goes outside to address the media when he spots the so called ""code killer"" in the crowd. But the chase ends after McCaleb suffers a heart attack and only manages to wound the killer. Now retired,"
"Clint Eastwood filmography Clint Eastwood is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer. After beginning his acting career exclusively with small uncredited film roles and television appearances, his career has spanned more than 50 years. Eastwood has acted in several television series, most notably ""Rawhide"". His role in the eight-season series led to his leading roles in ""A Fistful of Dollars"", ""For a Few Dollars More"", and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Eastwood has appeared in over 50 films and has starred in 42 films, including ""Hang 'Em High"", ""Play Misty for Me"", ""Dirty Harry"", ""Escape from"
"life. Eastwood first received the script in the spring of 1992 and remarked that ""Its almost as if it's written for me"". As of 2012, it is the last time he acted in a film he did not direct himself. The film was among the top 10 box office performers in that year, earning $102 million in North American ticket sales. In 1997, Eastwood directed ""Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"" Eastwood's daughter, Alison Eastwood played John Cusack's love interest. In 1999, Eastwood directed ""True Crime"". He portrayed journalist and alcoholic Steve Everett who is covering the convicted"
"who can play stubborn, battle-scarred, casually racist characters in his sleep."" The Mule (2018 film) The Mule is a 2018 American crime film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also plays the lead role. The screenplay is by Nick Schenk, based on ""The New York Times"" article ""The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule"" by Sam Dolnick. The film is inspired by the true story of Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran in his 80s who became a drug dealer and courier for the Sinaloa Cartel. Along with Eastwood, the film stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne"
"Scott Eastwood Scott Eastwood (born Scott Clinton Reeves; March 21, 1986) is an American actor and model. He has appeared in the films ""Flags of Our Fathers"" (2006), ""Gran Torino"" (2008), ""Invictus"" (2009), ""The Forger"" (2012), ""Trouble with the Curve"" (2012), ""Texas Chainsaw"" (2013), ""Fury"" (2014), ""The Perfect Wave"" (2014), ""The Longest Ride"" (2015), ""Mercury Plains"" (2016), ""Suicide Squad"" (2016), ""Snowden"" (2016), ""Walk of Fame"" (2017), ""The Fate of the Furious"" (2017), ""Overdrive"" (2017), and ""Pacific Rim Uprising"" (2018). He has also been the model for the fragrance Cool Water by Davidoff. He is the youngest son of Academy Award-winning"
"(2004), Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor. Eastwood's greatest commercial successes have been the adventure comedy ""Every Which Way But Loose"" (1978) and its sequel, the action comedy ""Any Which Way You Can"" (1980), after adjustment for inflation. Other popular films include the Western ""Hang 'Em High"" (1968), the psychological thriller ""Play Misty for Me"" (1971), the crime film ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"" (1974), the Western ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976), the prison film ""Escape from Alcatraz"" (1979), the action film ""Firefox"" (1982), the suspense thriller ""Tightrope"" (1984), the"
"Dirty Harry (character) Inspector Harold Francis Callahan, also known as Dirty Harry, is a fictional character in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series, which consists of ""Dirty Harry"" (1971), ""Magnum Force"" (1973), ""The Enforcer"" (1976), ""Sudden Impact"" (1983) and ""The Dead Pool"" (1988). Callahan is portrayed by Clint Eastwood in each film. From his debut, Callahan became the template for a new kind of movie cop: an antihero who does not hesitate to cross professional and ethical boundaries in pursuit of his own vision of justice, especially when the law is poorly served by an inept bureaucracy. Callahan is often considered"
"that Eastwood received second billing for a film. In the World War II movie ""Kelly's Heroes"", Eastwood stars as one of a group of Americans who steal a fortune in bullion from the Nazis. It was the last non-Malpaso film that Clint appeared in. The climax to the film echoes that of his Dollars films when he advances in lockstep on a German Tiger tank on the street of a small European town, with a Morricone-esque soundtrack by Lalo Schifrin. In the winter of 1969-70, Eastwood and Siegel began planning his next film, ""The Beguiled"". Jennings Lang, a Hollywood executive"
"Charlie St. Cloud Charlie St. Cloud is a 2010 American drama film based on Ben Sherwood's best-selling novel, ""The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud"" published in 2004 by Bantam Books. The film is directed by Burr Steers and stars Zac Efron and Amanda Crew. The story is of Charlie St. Cloud's choice between keeping a promise he made to his brother, who died in a car accident, or going after the girl he loves. In some markets the film used the complete title of the book. Charlie St. Cloud is a sailor who wins a boating race on"
"Buddy Van Horn Buddy Van Horn (born August 20, 1929) is an American stunt coordinator and film director. He directed the Clint Eastwood films ""Any Which Way You Can"" (1980), ""The Dead Pool"" (1988), and ""Pink Cadillac"" (1989). A long-time stunt double for Eastwood, he was credited as the stunt coordinator on Eastwood's films from 1972 to 2011, and as second unit director on ""Magnum Force"" (1973) and ""The Rookie"" (1990). He was sometimes credited as Wayne Van Horn in the 1980s. He earlier doubled for Guy Williams on Disney's ""Zorro"", and Gregory Peck. Van Horn's most prominent onscreen appearance"
"called """"McTrigger"""", about which McCoy admits, ""Seems all I did was shoot hippies."" A clip showed McTrigger driving through New York in a convertible shooting at random members of the hippie crowd that covered the sidewalks. McCoy mentions the show was retooled after his character was written out to become ""Room 222"". ""McCloud"" has aired in reruns on local stations in the past, and continues to do so on some to this day. Me-TV brought ""McCloud"" to its schedule as part of the late night ""MeTV Mystery Movie"" programming block which premiered on January 1, 2015. The network was employing"
"The Mule (2018 film) The Mule is a 2018 American crime film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also plays the lead role. The screenplay is by Nick Schenk, based on ""The New York Times"" article ""The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule"" by Sam Dolnick. The film is inspired by the true story of Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran in his 80s who became a drug dealer and courier for the Sinaloa Cartel. Along with Eastwood, the film stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest, and Andy García. It is Eastwood's first acting project since"
"O. Scott of ""The New York Times"" wrote that while it was similar to many of Eastwood's other films, ""there is something comforting in seeing this old warhorse trot gamely out of the gate for yet another run on familiar turf."" The film was not a box office success, grossing $26.2 million on a budget of $50 million. Blood Work (film) Blood Work is a 2002 American mystery thriller film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The film co-stars Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston. It is based on the novel of the same name by Michael"
"filming ""unharmed, unscratched, unused."" Actor Clive Mantle, who plays the racist bouncer Harry, has the distinction of being the only person to successfully beat up Clint Eastwood in a film (not counting ""Every Which Way But Loose"" when he intentionally loses). Mantle was roughly half Eastwood's age and reportedly had trouble keeping up with him during filming of the fight scene. Although Eastwood had suffered beatings in other films, most notably ""Dirty Harry"", its sequel ""Sudden Impact"" and later ""Unforgiven"", they usually involved him being outnumbered or outmatched; this was the first and only time he was defeated in a"
"Magnum Force Magnum Force is a 1973 American action thriller and the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan after the 1971 film ""Dirty Harry"". Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in the television series ""Rawhide"" and the feature film ""Hang 'Em High"", directed this second installment in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series. The screenplay was written by John Milius (who provided an uncredited rewrite for the original film) and Michael Cimino. The film score was once again composed by Lalo Schifrin. This film features early appearances by David Soul, Tim Matheson and Robert Urich. At 124"
"an emergency landing, keeping all passengers on board alive. Released in the United States in September 2016, it became another commercial success for Eastwood, grossing over $238 million worldwide. In 2018, he directed the biographical thriller """", which saw previously non-professional actors Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos playing themselves as they stop the 2015 Thalys train attack. The film received a generally negative reception from critics, who were largely critical of the acting by the three leads. The Mule, in which he is director and lead, was released in December 2018. Beginning with the thriller ""Play Misty for"
"action. Engine sound effects for the electric-motor RC10 were added in post production. The chase scenes have many similarities with the famous car-chase in the Steve McQueen film ""Bullitt"", which Eastwood has said was his favorite part of the McQueen film. The necessity of closing down various continuously busy city streets meant that the sequences tend to jump from district to district, much as the similar scenes did in the McQueen film, making for a number of continuity errors that are easily overlooked during the fast-paced scenes, just as the motorcycle chase-scenes in the second Dirty Harry film (""Magnum Force"")"
"Then there was a boogie woogie sequence with three pianists Pete Jolly, Mike Land and co-star Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood Niehaus had probably the most significant relation. Sharing a passion for jazz they knew each other for a long time. Niehaus had already orchestrated scores for films starring Eastwood like ""Tightrope"" (1984), that was also produced by Eastwood. But it was not until Eastwood's eleventh direction, 1985 ""Pale Rider,"" that Niehaus actually wrote the first score for one of his films. Niehaus then wrote the musical scores for the following twelve films up to ""Blood Work"" in 2002, and"