Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening to the Important Cinema Club.

And today, we revisit a favorite of ours, Mr. Clint Eastwood.

But we've talked about him as a director in the past. And this time, we're talking about him

as an actor, specifically in films that he did not direct or were directed by his cronies. And let's be

honest, uh, that's a real thin selection. Justin, hey Justin. Justin, do you feel lucky,

do you feel lucky punk? Oh, I have to say, Don Siegel, not a crony of Clint Eastwood, but Don Segal is such a powerful director.

I feel like a whole episode could be dedicated to him.

That's right. We didn't want to waste this opportunity to discuss Siegel or Sergio Leone, which, yes, left slimmer pickens.

More than anything, we wanted to discuss Clint Eastwood

as a star persona. And I am actually, though, interested in talking about these directors a little

bit, because authorship is an interesting thing in the cinema of Clint Eastwood. There are certain

people like, yeah, Don Siegel, whose sensibility meshed very closely

with Clint Eastwoods, not just in obvious films like Dirty Harry, but also in the experiments

they did together, like the beguiled. And then you have to take into account the reason that

the offerings are so slim is that Clint Eastwood, early on in his career, specifically after where Eagles Dare,

decided this is a waste of resources and money. I don't like how Hollywood pictures are made.

So I'm going to create my own production company, Malpaso Productions, and I will basically be in

charge of every film that I make from this point forward. And so there are many movies that Clint Eastwood technically did not direct.

He's not the credited director on.

But if it begins with a Malpasso production, it's a Clint Eastwood authored film generally.

And if you're looking at the list here of the film that we're going to talk about,

you'll be like, wait a minute, all of these are Malpasso productions.

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