CLINT EASTWOOD VII / BEYOND THE SCREEN
SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT MOVIES AND TELEVISION
Chronologically speaking, this should be placed in the first chapter, for this is a list with all the Eastwood stuff I haven't seen yet, which, being mostly very old, belongs to the second half of the fifties almost in its entirety. With this short summary, all his career as an actor and director is covered. At least that I know of (see asterisk below).
As a director, the only thing that I'm missing is the already mentioned short The Beguiled (The Storyteller) (1971), related with Don Siegel's film itself. Apart from that, episode number twelve of the first season of Amazing Stories, named Vanessa In The Garden (1985), and the seventh and last episode of the documentary series (produced by Martin Scorsese), The Blues, titled Piano Blues (2003). It is public domain that Clint is also a pianist and a blues enthusiast, besides jazz music.
As an actor, the list is much longer:
- Revenge Of The Creature, by Jack Arnold (1955). Uncredited. He plays JENNINGS.
- FRANCIS IN THE NAVY, by Arthur Lubin (1955). He plays JONESY.
- LADY GODIVA OF COVENTRY, by Arthur Lubin (1955). Uncredited. As ALFRED.
- COCHISE, GREATEST OF THE APACHES, episode number sixteen of the second season of TV READER'S DIGEST, directed by HARRY HORNER in 1956. Clint is liutenant WILSON.
- NEVER SAY GOODBYE, directed by JERRY HOPPER in 1956. Uncredited. As WILL.
- MOTORCYCLE A, episode twenty seven of the first season of HIGHWAY PATROL, directed by LAMBERT HILLYER in 1956. He plays JOE KEELEY.
- STAR IN THE DUST. CHARLES F. HAAS (1956). Uncredited, as TOM.
- THE FIRST TRAVELING SALESLADY, again by Arthur Lubin (1956). He plays JACK RICE.
- AWAY ALL BOATS, by JOSEPH PEVNEY (1956); uncredited. He plays a corpsman.
- THE LAST LETTER, seventh episode of the fifth season of DEATH VALLEY DAYS, directed by STUART E. MCGOWAN in 1956. WIKIPEDIA mentions two episodes, in this case, but IMDB does not. Eastwood plays JOHN LUCAS.
- WHITE FURY, episode number twenty of the first season of WEST POINT, directed by JAMES SHELDON (1957). He is cadet BOB SALTER.
- ESCAPADE IN JAPAN (1957), by Arthur Lubin. Uncredited. As DUMBO.
- THE LONELY WATCH, episode seventeen of the third season of NAVY LOG, directed by SAMUEL GALLU (1958). Fun fact: famed classic actor JAMES CAGNEY also was in this episode. Clint has often named him as his favourite actor. Eastwood plays BURNS.
- AMBUSS AT CIMARRON PASS, by JODIE COPELAN (1958). Another fun fact: Eastwood himself said this was, most likely, The lousiest western ever made. He played KEITH WILLIAM.
- LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE, directed by WILLIAM A. WELLMAN in 1958. As GEORGE MOSELEY.
- DUEL AT SUNDOWN, episode nineteen of the second season of MAVERICK (starred by a young JAMES GARNER), once again with Arthur Lubin as the director (1959). Eastwood is RED HARDIGAN.
- HUMAN INTEREST STORY, episode thirty two of the fourth season of the very famous TV show ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, directed by NORMAN LLOYD in 1959. Clint played a newsman and shared credits with Hitchcock himself and also with STEVE MCQUEEN, no less.
- CLINT EASTWOOD MEETS MISTER ED, episode twenty five of the second season of MISTER ED, again by Arthur Lubin (1962). As himself.
- Last, but not least, the TV show he earned a name for himself in the business with, Rawhide, showed between 1959 and 1965, in which he played Rowdy Yates.
As it has probably been noticed, that person, Arthur Lubin, was a paramount figure for him during these years. He was known to be gay and MAGGIE JOHNSON, Eastwood's wife, was suspicious due to all the attention that Lubin devoted to her husband, but be it as it may, Clint owes him a bunch of roles and opportunities, thanks to a personal contract he had signes with him in 1954, not to mention the friendship between the two of them during those early years. When that contract expired, Clint struggled to carry on with his career, in spite of Lubin's help, even without said contract. However, when Eastwood began to have success, he stopped treating Lubin, until 1992, when Clint promised him to meet for a dinner which never happened. That's too bad, Clint.
I guess it can be said that Lubin was the person who discovered the actor within Eastwood. He passed away in 1995.
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| Rowdy Yates |
*I said it was IMDB the website I had taken into account, but I also have to say that there are a couple of things on Wikipedia that, had I stick only with the acting and directing IMDB credits, I would have overlooked: in 1955 he was seen in a TV movie called ALLEN IN MOVIELAND, directed by DICK MCDONOUGH, and already in 1991, he plays himself in a documentary by ROBERT GUENETTE titled HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, WARNER BROS.
He played himself as well, as the narrator, in another documentary directed by RICHARD SCHICKEL, called GARY COOPER: AMERICAN LIFE, AMERICAN LEGEND (1989). In the same vein, although as one of the participants and not the conductor, he also appeared in KUROSAWA, LA VOIE (KUROSAWA'S WAY, 2011), a french documentary by CATHERINE CADOU.
And in Sad Hill Unearthed, of course, as I already explained.
I'm pretty sure to be missing some minor things out, here and there, in which Eastwood has somehow taken part. And there's also his musical career, that I'll soon talk about.
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| Clint Eastwood, circa the early eighties |
Concerning Eastwood as a director, it has been praised the fact that he is one of the few most renowned actors in all Hollywood to make a successful (both critically and commercially) move to direction.
One of the most important reasons why he created a production company was his getting fed up with the unnecesary perfectionism that he observed in the directors he had known. He made up his mind and chose to put his faith in austeriry and spontaneity, forgetting about every aspect he would not like as an actor. Hence his already talked about penchant for as few takes as possible, his rejection of storyboards and his famed inclination to avoid rehearsals, not to mention his efficiency while filming, something which has translated quite often into finishing films below the schedule and the budget initially planned. Another one of his usual traits is telling only what's necessary about the plot, and as little about the characters as he possibly can, so that the audience can use its imagination and get involved in the film.
On the other hand, said austeriry is also taken to his (few) instructions, the usually relaxed pace of his filmings, and even the lighting, which is soft more often than not. Eastwood seems to champion the expression More is less when it comes about his films.
As for the themes of his movies, some recurring ones are justice and morality, as well as one's own determination, family, loneliness, heroism and sacrifice. In all truth, many of the old subjects of the western genre can be seen in his movies, be them western ones themselves, or through a more modern context. But most likely, as I have read somewhere, our hero would said that is just bullshit, because he only wants to tell a good story.
Clint Eastwood has a very long and prolific career as a producer as well, although I have barely metioned it, for it's not something either I'm interested in, or that I know a lot of.
For the sake of completing this information, I have to say that Firefox (1982) marked his debut as a producer (credited as such, because apparently, and as I said before, since Hang 'Em High he began producing all the Malpaso films), and only The Rookie and A Perfect World have been directed but not produced by him, ever since. He also produced Tightrope, although he did not direct it (in principle, because it seems like, for almost all intents and purposes, he was the director too), and since The Bridges Of Madison County he has produced every single film he has directed.
He also produced the movie THE STARS FELL ON HENRIETTA (JAMES KEACH, 1995), and has taken part in some other projects as an executive producer.
CLINT EASTWOOD THE MELOMANIAC
Music has always been a very important part of his life, and something that he's been able to combine with his work within the cinema realms. It even was what he wanted to devote his life to at first. He's a jazz music and blues aficionado (mostly the latter), and, apparently, a very proficient pianist. Before getting famous he produced and sung on an album comprised of country standards and he even toured with some fellow actors from the cast of Raw Hide, under the name of AMUSEMENT BUSINESS CAVALCADE OF FAIRS.
As part of his deal with Warner, Clint has his own record company (it is called MALPASO RECORDS, and the studio which Warner owns in Burbank, and which is devoted to the recording of film scores, has been christened as CLINT EASTWOOD SCORING STAGE), with which he has released every single soundtrack of his films since The Bridges Of Madison County, some of which he has composed himself (he even wrote one for a film directed by someone else: GRACE IS GONE, directed by JAMES C. STROUSE and premiered in 2007), as it has been mentioned. He has also written several other piano pieces (In The Line Of Fire), that song for Diana Krall, or even another one which he has sung on (Gran Torino).
Besides Grace Is Gone, the soundtracks he's been responsible for were those of Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby (with which he got nominated at the Grammy Awards in 2006), Flags Of Our Fathers (with the collaboration of his son Kyle and Michael Stevens), Changeling, Hereafter and J. Edgar.
The famous Monterrey Jazz Festival, which was even shown in his debut as a director, Play Misty For Me, worked as a stage when in 2007, and as part of the festival's fifty anniversary schedule, he was honoured with an honorary doctorate in music (because of his contributions to jazz and blues music) by the BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC (located in Boston, is the world's largest independent music college, and Clint's is a member of its board of administrators since 1992). Clint was flanked by, again, Diana Krall, family friend and Berklee alumni.
It needs to be remarked as well, that Malpaso Records released the album titled EASTWOOD AFTER HOURS (LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL) in 1997. This is a live album (recorded on October, the 17th, 1996, at the legendary New York venue) in which reputed jazz musicians (together with THE CARNEGIE HALL JAZZ BAND and a string section) performed music from the scores of Eastwood's movies. Clint hosted the event, besides sitting at the piano on the suite the album is named after, and he also co-produced this album, which became a hit. Kyle Eastwood and his quartet also took part.
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| One of his biggest passions |
The films he's been involved in as an actor have made almost two billion dollars of gross income, only in the home market, almost reaching two and a half billions worldwide. As a director, his films are even closer to having grossed those two billions at, let's say, home. As for the overall income, this is not far from the three and a half billion dollars (gross). Many of those films are in both categories, of course, but these figures are remarkable.
When I say home market I mean (unless noted otherwise) North America (USA, Canada and Puerto Rico). The international one refers to the rest of the world, and the amounts which have been given above in the second place result from putting both markets together. Always on a gross basis.
I've checked a website called THE NUMBERS to shed some light on all this, and Clint is shown almost on top on some lists (mostly on the one of the top directors at the domestic box office), but taking a look at some of them, I have realized I barely understand anything about the way they have been elaborated.
The list of awards is overwhelming, with prizes of all sorts and from all places, be them from critics, fellow partners in crime, festivals or the best known ones. And not only because of his work, when focused on a specific film, but also because of his career as a whole and his achievements as an overall filmmaker (a recognition to him as an individual).
Pertaining the last ones, he is the recipient of an honorary Palme D'Or at Cannes (2009), a medal (also at Cannes) as Commander Of The Order Of Arts And Letters (1994), the french Legion Of Honour (2007), a japanese Order Of The Rising Sun (2009), three honorary degrees at as many different colleges and many more recognitions.
But if we focus only on the most important ones, at least when it comes to the big screen, as the Academy and The Golden Globe Awards are, his films have been worthy of forty one nominations at the former, and thirty three at the latter, which have amounted to thirteen Oscar Awards and eight Globes. Every single film involved in these achievements has been directed by him.
Out of all those forty one Academy Awards nominations, eleven belong directly to him, be them as an actor, director or best film. He got four prizes, as the best director and for the the best film thanks to Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. In both occasions, he almost achieved an unprecedented treble, having also been nominated as best actor, although with no luck. But this last detail makes him one of only two people to having been nominated twice as both actor and director for the best film (the other one being Warren Beatty).
His Academy Award as best director for Million Dollar Baby made him the most veteran director to win this prize so far (he was seventy four when that ceremony took place) and one of three directors who are still alive and have directed two different winner films (together with Milos Forman and Francis Ford Coppola). He is also one of the few directors who are even better known due to their work as actors, to win an Oscar as best director (along with Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, Warren Beatty again, Robert Redford and RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH).
At the Golden Globes, thirteen out of those thirty three nominations involve him, triumphing another four times: best director for Bird, Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, and best foreign film for Letters From Iwo Jima.
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| 1992 |
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| 2005 |
A MORE PRIVATE EASTWOOD (ALTHOUGH NOT TOO MUCH)
His private and familiar life could be the subject of as much talk as his work. He has fathered eight children. At least that are known of, because his unruly passion for women, since a very young age, makes this information little reliable. At the very beginning, I mentioned the daughter he had in the early fifties, allegedly unaware of it (there are some discrepancies on this), and right after marrying a woman (Maggie Johnson) who was not the newborn's mother. He has known (presumably) about that daughter's existence only a few years ago (she, in principle, is the oldest of his offspring, and the one who finally makes that number eight). In fact, only four children out of those eight were acknowledged when they were born; the other four were later known to be his. Eastwood himself, while being interviewed in 1997, answered the question of how many kids he had, with a laconic I have a few. All this means that is quite feasible that his total offspring can amount to more than eight kids. Because his moral compass concerning subjects such as fidelity or monogamy has revealed itself as almost nonexistent, by keeping tons of relationships with different women, and many times overlapping them. Not to mention those we do not know anything about.
Thus, we have hir first daughter, Laurie (11-02-1954, born MURRAY), whose existence was revealed to Clint a little time ago. Her mother's names is unknown and Laurie was given up for adoption at birth.
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| Clint and Laurie, no less. He's an idol |
Taking the age of his children into account, the next in line would be KIMBER LYNN (17-06-1964), born of his relationship with ROXANNE TUNIS (who died in 2023). He spent with Tunis a good fourteen years, since 1959, although Kimber's existence was not made public until 1989, even if Clint is documented as her father in her birth certificate.
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| Kimber Lynn in an old photo |
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| Dancer and actress Roxanne Tunis |
The next ones to be born were the two children Eastwood had with Maggie Johnson (his first wife, whom he married in 1953), the already mentioned Kyle (19-05-1968) and Alison (22-05-1972). Obviously, this marriage's timeline is overlapped with that of Clint's relationship with Tunis, and it's bee said that Clint and Johnson's marriage was an open one. Perhaps it just ended up being open because with someone like Clint there was no other way for it to work. It was either that or splitting up. They got divorced in 1984, although it all had already ended six years prior.
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| Kyle Eastwood |
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| Alison Eastwood |
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| Kyle, Alison and parents Clint and Maggie |
This relationship with Reeves was not known until the beginning of the nineties, and the birth certificate of both kids showed that their father had, supposedly, rejected any involvement. Both children's identity was kept a secret until 2002.
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| Scott and his famed dad |
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| It can be said there's a certain resemblance |
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| Clint and Kathryn some years ago |
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| Scott and his mum, Jacelyn |
I said, as trivia fact, the first time I mentioned Scott, that I had seen him starring in a video by singer Taylor Swift. Well, that song is called WILDEST DREAMS, and is on a 2014 album named 1989. Said video was shot, mostly, in Botswana and South Africa, and was inspired by films such as The African Queen and by AVA GARDNER's memoirs (THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS, written by PETER EVANS and published in 2013), and was also target of irated criticism, very much in the vein of what happens nowadays with certain stuff.
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| Frances Fisher and Francesca |
Morgan, born in 1996 (December, the 12th), is the youngest one. She was born to Dina Ruiz, Clint's second wife, who had already been mentioned. The beginning of Eastwood's relationship with this woman (quite younger than him, by the way) seems to overlap with the ending of his affair with Fisher, and the new couple got married in 1996, when she was already pregnant. They got divorced in 2014, after having been apart for very long.
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| Morgan |
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| With Dina Ruiz |
The last 15th of June (2024), Clint walked down the aisle with a very pregnant Morgan, for her to get married.
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| It's coming! |
It is remarkable indeed his controversial relationship with actress Sondra Locke, whom she met in 1972 and seemed to be made, at least during those times, of a similar stuff as Eastwood, when it came to her relationships. She was married (out of convenience, and never got divorced) and he was still with Johnson, although he actually wasn't. This fact caused quite a stir, although Johnson ended up filing for divorce when she realized Locke was not going to mean to Eastwood what many others before her.
Apparently, Clint had other thoughts (or began to have them soon) and, besides some other relationships, had his two kids with Reeves amidst his affair with Locke (with whom he lived). Locke did not know a lot about all this, at least according to her, but she eventually knew about Eastwood's double life and those kidas, with the aggravating circumstance that she had had two miscarriages together with Clint (during the seventies), and it seems like the second one was actually an abortion, and she was reluctant to carry on with it (it happened at the end of Every Which Way But Loose filming). There are also different opinions concerning these miscarriages, and a subsequent tubal ligation.
Be it as it may, it all ended in 1989, although the legal procedures took much longer to settle. In the meantime, Locke got breast cancer, and that led her to forget about this legal issue in exchange of a deal, but she sued Eastwood again in 1995 concerning this last part. After reaching another agreement the year after, she had another legal brawl, this time with Warner and with Clint as witness, because she pleaded that Warner and him had tried to sabotage her career as a director. In 1999 everything had finished, but she's been quite tough on Eastwood along the years. And, once again, for good reason.
Clint, however, had allegedly admitted to some trusted ones, that Locke had not been another one, that there had been true love between the two of them, at least for a while, and that he had tried hard for it to work. But there was also Eastwood's true nature and the fact that he could not stand her still being married (to a certain Gordon Anderson, by the way), something that never changed until she passed away in 2018.
Sondra Locke directed as many as four movies and published an autobiography in 1997, called THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE VERY UGLY: A HOLLYWOOD JOURNEY. No comments.
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| Eastwood and Locke: all bad |
As of today, he is in a relationship (since 2014, apparently, and made public in 2015) with CHRISTINA SANDERA, a waitress he met while she was working at one of his hospitality businesses, who is also many years his junior.
*Unfortunately, barely one week after this entry has seen the light, I learn about Sandera's sudden passing (it looks like it all happened during the past 18th of July, 2024), aged sixty one, thanks to my pal DEIVIZ. Apparently, it's been Eastwood himself who has made the tragic event public, with a few lines notified to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The cause of death remains unknown, at least for the time being. May she rest in peace.
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| Christina Sandera |
I did not want to distract myself with these matters (and truth is, I have not told almost anything), but naming his whole offspring and the kids' mothers already takes a while. There have been many other women, of course (I won't bother mentioning any, but some of those who are known are pretty famous, and some of them even belong to the acting business) and, as I've said, there are reasonable doubts about Eastwood's offspring, because it might very well amount to more than eight children. One of his biographers, PATRICK MCGILLIGAN, admitted not knowing neither the exact number of children he might have, nor with how many women, reaching as far as speaking about an hypothetical child born when Eastwood was still in high school.
There have been recent rumours concerning an actor and filmmaker named JAKE C. YOUNG, right after he used Eastwood as his stage name. Young has never said anything about it, but I googled his name and well, let's say that those rumours are well founded, at least concerning this guy's looks.
Step aside, JULIO IGLESIAS.
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| With Christina Sandera (R.I.P.) |
GO AHEAD, MAKE ME MAYOR: THE POLITICIAN
Eastwood has close ties with the world of politics. According to what I've read and listened to, even from conversations I haven't been part of, I can picture what people's overall vision of him in this regard is. Exaggerations (or at least that's my opinion) concerning this are the order of the day, as a consecuence of what I think is just going with the flow and paying attention to gossip. That's why Eastwood is pretty much depicted as a completely right wing and reactionary person. An old-timer and an old fashioned fella, regardless of his age, and little less than a fascist through and through. But this is curious and even funny, because more often than not, a depiction as poor as that one, is also joined by a usual an undisguised liking for Clint, his craft and, in many cases, some of his legendary fictional lines, no matter how barbaric they are. From people belonging to every single corner of the political spectrum. To sum it all up, the guy's a savage, but we like him anyway.
There's much more than meets the eye. Clint Eastwood is not Harry Callahan. He doesn't bend the law at his will and gets away with it, and he does not get out in the street with a Magnum 44. He's voiced his opinion againts political correctness, no doubt, but some usual themes found in his films as a director, and which tend to a more progressive line of thinking, have been systematically ignored. As has been ignored the fact that he is pro gun control. Eastwood, a usual republican supporter, has aimed at everyone who he's deemed worthy of critic, regardless of their ideas (president NIXON himself, as a notorious example), and has even had his times of leaning towards the democrats. And as much as he does not see himself as a left wing activist, he does not consider himself as a total conservative person either. He considers himself a libertarian (even a member of the LP or LIBERTARIAN PARTY), supportive of the famous motto live and let live, without doing harm to anyone. Someone too individualistic to, according to him, be tagged as left or right wing, and a champion of the civil rights from a liberal perspective. All this includes a defence of the freedom of choice when it comes to abortion, and of marriage within the same sex (being very judgmental towards the republican party in this regard).
He's criticized his country's traditional relationship with war and its involvement in some of them. He does not like that USA always wants to be what he calls a Global policeman.
He was elected major (an independent one) of his much beloved Carmel in 1986, working as such during two years before he moved on, and he donated his exiguous salary to a juvenile centre term of the city. He also supported (although not all the time) Arnold Schwarzenegger when the latter became the governor of California in 2003, working along him on a few things here and there (for example, within the California State Park And Recreation Commission, which Eastwood was already a member of, since 2001). Clint has always shown interest in California's politics.
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| Clint triumphs |
After BARACK OBAMA was elected the US president in 2008, Eastwood, who had supported his own friend, republican JOHN MCCAIN, during the election, said he wished the very best for Obama, for that would mean the best for the country. But a few years later, at 2012 Republican National Convention, and after having given his support to another republican (MITT ROMNEY) in the next election, Eastwood gave an improvised speech (allegedly a secret surprise) which lasted around twelve minutes. In said speech he addressed an empty chair which was supposed to be Obama, and this performance was seen live by millions. Clint joked with some poor taste remarks concerning him and Romney that Obama had supposedly made, to end up saying that it was the citizens, regardless of their ideas, who owned the country, and that politicians were just their employees, and not the other way around.
The responses were immediate, many and different. There was approval within that convention and tons of crticism outside of it. Memes were created too (the EASTWOODING). This is not something that I deem deserving of further attention, but it became the talk of the town back in the day, and it was not exactly one of Eastwood's most popular moments.
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| The infamous chair |
Later on, and regarding the 2016 campaign, he admitted not having supported anybody, although he also said that, if given the chance to choose between HILLARY CLINTON and DONALD TRUMP, he would stick with the latter, because Clinton had said she would follow in Obama's footsteps. Eastwood said he understood some of Trump's ideas and where his motivations came from, but at the same time he quoted Trump as someone who said a lot of bullshit and was unmistakably racist some times. What he did not understand is how everything was about what Trump said or did not say, instead of much more important stuff. Soon after he said he had no idea whom his vote would go to, and not for the good reasons. In 2020 he publicly supported democrat MIKE BLOOMBERG, because Trump had humiliated himself with his foolishness.
MISCELLANY
There's more. Since a very early age, Eastwood has advocated for exercising and a healthy life, even appearing in some magazines in this regard, once he became a star, to advice people on nutrition, etc. This side of him was reinforced later on after his dad's relatively early death, due to a heart attack.
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| Beware! |
He has also set his eyes on the hospitality industry, and he owns the MISSION RANCH hotel, in Carmel. This is a real estate which exists since 1852 and which he purchased in 1986 to refurbish it according to its original style. In addition, and also in Carmel, he opened a pub called HOG'S BREATH INN in 1971, which he kept until 1999, when he sold it. This place is said to be the one where he first met Jacelyn Reeves in.
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| His former business |
It has nothing to do with said hospitality industry, but Clint has shown great interest in golf as well, and not only as a sport to be practiced. He owns a golf club, which is located, where if not there, in Carmel, and which is called TEHÀMA GOLF CLUB. It has to be a very exclusive place because, besides facing the Pacific Ocean and being surrounded by the expected high standards, one can only become a member at invitation.
In a nutshell, Clint Eastwood not only devotes himself to acting, directing, producing, composing, piano playing, business in the hospitality industry making, healthy way of life advocating and full time womanizing, but he also flies helicopters, meditates and invests in the real estate market, not to mention his philantropy things here and there. What you'd call a true polymath. Although it goes without saying that money bears interest, and when someone has as much, the options to increase one's knowledge and fields of expertise get much bigger.
And this is all that there is.
I wish I could say that everything I have written it's been done with complete knowledge, given that I'm an expert in all things Clint Eastwood and an authority on this matter. No way. Nowhere near close. I haven't even read any of the many biographies out there about him (although I wish I did, and I have one in waiting). I've seen his movies and I can talk about them as a fan, but that, and little else, is what I've done: giving my opinion on them.
I always try to gather enough information when I write and, in order to offer what info I deem necessary, I have had to do a lot of reading. In this regard, I must thank all that I've learnt on Wikipedia, the chronology (and more) gotten from IMDB and some other articles I could not list, for they are many. But all that information (and a lot of more I've rejected) can be found anywhere, and what I didn't want to do, was to present it as if this was another encyclopaedic entry. This is why I hope the hypothetical reader appeciates all this mostly because of my personal opinion on the films, and the anecdotes related to them, regardless of their agreement with my points of view, given this is not only about cinema.
This is a tribute that just had to be done and, after a few months I'm amazed that I've reached the end, although it's also true that finishing it makes me sad somehow. If those who read it have just one quarter of the fun I've experienced writing it, find out they are eager to watch this or that film one more time, or just want to watch them all for the first time after the reading, it would be enough for me to consider all this a success. It's been good fun to remember so many things about this movies and, being honest, now I want to see almost all of them once again.
Thanks to Clint Eastwood for being such an amazing individual (despite some things) and for the insane amount of good times and memories he has provided us with. Thanks to Constantino Romero for contributing to create an immortal picture of the actor in the subconscious of so many people in Spain.
Thanks to the reader, of course, for reaching this far.
And last, but not least, I'd like to remember the great Donald Sutherland, Clint's partner in crime in a couple of movies, who passed away on the 20th of June, aged eighty eight (1935 - 2024). May his soul rest in peace.
See you soon!
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