In Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been slashed by a client, the women hire .. Read more
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris |
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| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Warner Brothers' first big summer blockbuster didn't make quite the splash the company would have hoped for as it limped in with a measly $20.3 million in its first weekend at the US box office. Wolfgang Peterson's remake of disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure failed to knock the third installment of Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible off the top of the chart, while the US box office was down 13 per cent overall on last year's attendances. Poseidon, which stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard... Read more
Clint Eastwood has won the prestigious Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for his female boxing drama Million Dollar Baby. The celebrated actor and film-maker beat off stiff competition from Martin Scorsese, who was nominated for his biographical film The Aviator, which charts the life of billionaire Howard Hughes. The renowned DGA award is seen as an important indicator for Oscar success. Fifty of the last 56 winners have gone on to receive an Academy Award. "This is a surprise. ... I Read more
The US Library of Congress has added a further 25 films to its National Film Registry. New inductees include classic movies such as Ben-Hur, Jailhouse Rock and 1992 film Unforgiven, starring Clint Eastwood. The selections, made by the librarian of Congress from nearly 1,000 films nominated by the public, library staff and film experts also included spinach-eating hero Popeye and intrepid dog Rin Tin Tin. The National Film Registry, housed in the Washington DC library, is a collection of 'signifi Read more
Several actors have played God over the years, including Graham Chapman, Charlton Heston, George Burns, Alanis Morissette, and even Groucho Marx. (Danny Boyle and Andrew Macdonald tried to cast Sean Connery as the Almighty in A Life Less Ordinary but he was having none of it.) No one has played Him Upstairs with more genial simplicity and grace than Morgan Freeman. In Bruce Almighty he even handed over his powers to a disbelieving Jim Carrey. No such luck for Steve Carell's Evan Baxter in the... Read more
Maybe it's too early to say it, but I shouldn't be surprised if two of my top ten movies for 2007 turn out to be WWII dramas. Clint Eastwood's grim, compassionate Letters from Iwo Jima is released here Feb 23rd, and supplies a Japanese perspective on the same crucial battle featured in Flags of Our Fathers. I think it's his best film since Unforgiven, and maybe his best film period. But this week we get Black Book, a very different kind of war movie from Paul Verhoeven - the man who gave us... Read more