If you're lucky enough to be graced with cash or gift cards this Christmas, and you have a big hole on your DVD shelf where Clint Eastwood ought to be, Warner Bros will be happy to help you out. On February 16 they're releasing a massive, 19-disc collection Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years at Warner Bros that celebrates the actor / director / producer. Included will be a booklet and a feature length documentary by Richard Schickel. The retail price will be a hefty $179.98.Warners didn't release a complete list of those 35 films, but it spans the tender years of Where Eagles Dare all the way to 2008's Gran Torino. I imagine there will be some crossover with what you already own, like the entire Dirty Harry collection and The Outlaw Josey Wales. But most of his output from the late 1970s onward was done at Warner Bros, so all those films you've forgotten he ever made -- The Gauntlet, Bronco Billy, Honkytonk Man, Tightrope, Firefox, Heartbreak Ridge, A Perfect World, Pink Cadillac -- and can't find on DVD will make this a must have for the fan who needs everything.
Or almost everything. If you're looking for his directorial debut Play Misty For Me, or forgotten gems like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot or The Beguiled, you'll have to wait until Universal or MGM decides to put out a boxed set of their own. On that day, you better reinforce your bookshelf with steel frames to support the other 30 odd films he's done, even without Francis in the Navy.
1. Hi Elisabeth,
I just got the complete list of films:
1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Kelly's Heroes
3. Dirty Harry
4. Magnum Force
5. The Enforcer
6. The Outlaw Josey Wales
7. The Gauntlet
8. Every Which Way But Loose
9. Bronco Billy
10. Any Which Way You Can
11. Honkytonk Man
12. Firefox
13. Sudden Impact
14. City Heat
15. Tightrope
16. Pale Rider
17. Heartbreak Ridge
18. Bird
19. The Dead Pool
20. Pink Cadillac
21. White Hunter, Black Heart
22. The Rookie
23. Unforgiven
24. A Perfect World
25. The Bridges of Madison County
26. Absolute Power
27. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
28. True Crime
29. Space Cowboys
30. Blood Work
31. Mystic River
32. Million Dollar Baby
33. Letters from Iwo Jima
34. Gran Torino
35. The Eastwood Factor (new short film by Schickel)
JMA
Posted at 1:31PM on Nov 30th 2009 by Jeffrey M. Anderson