Clint Eastwood: A Retrospective

When Clint Eastwood‘s star was rising, in particular when he was working with Don Siegel on films like The Beguiled, he suddenly got it in his craw the idea that he could direct feature films, so, in 1971 he took a small thriller script by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner, cast himself in the lead as well as Siegel in a small part, and proved that he could manage a production and bring a script’s strengths (and weaknesses) to screen efficiently. It wasn’t in line with his common image of the Man with N...