The Gauntlet

Clint Eastwood seemed very self-aware of his image, and The Gauntlet feels like an attempt to subvert the image he had cultivated through the Dirty Harry series of films, which he thought was over after The Enforcer. Warner Brothers would come to him a few years later carrying a very large bag of money to change his mind about that. However, before then, Eastwood made a film about a cop, not the best cop but one of the worse ones. An unremarkable and alcoholic metro cop from Phoenix who gets...