Magnum Force

#4 in my ranking of the Dirty Harry franchise. This movie doesn't feel like it really begins for an hour. Considering that it's the longest of the Dirty Harry movies, that really tells me that Ted Post and his editor Ferris Webster needed to pare down its opening half majorly. Its introduction of the entire…

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Breezy

#38 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Well, this is certainly a change of pace. After the taut thriller that was Play Misty For Me and the violent, revisionist Western that was High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood makes his third directorial feature about an older man learning to accept the romantic love of an…

High Plains Drifter

#11 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. This is just really well-made exploitation, isn't it? I'm not really complaining because Clint Eastwood, in his second outing as director, brings a professionalism and sense of class to both the directing and acting that the basic script doesn't seem to deserve, taking a simple tale of…

Dirty Harry

#1 in my ranking of the Dirty Harry franchise. Here we see the influence of Fritz Lang's M decades after its release. There's the emphasis on process and the absolutely insane antagonist serial killer. Where there are differences are the obvious setting changes, but also the focus on an individual investigator and how the official…

Play Misty for Me

#25 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Clint Eastwood (made famous by his leading role in Revenge of the Creature, obviously) was a movie star with designs to becoming a film director, so he found a small, thriller script, went to Universal, and asked for the money to direct. He seemed out to prove…