Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
Though he became a well-regarded director starting in the 1970s, and a movie star around the middle of the 1960s, Clint Eastwood’s earliest years in the entertainment industry were on television. His 1950s films generally saw him in smaller roles, so it was the series Rawhide that made Eastwood a big name. He had a starring role in the Western show, which began airing in 1959 and ended in 1965, airing 200+ episodes in total.
What it boils down to is two men having various misadventures in Old West times while sharing a wife, and occasionally taking part in musical numbers. Yes, Paint Your Wagon is inexplicably a musical, and not a very good one either. Though, for what it’s worth, you do get to see Clint Eastwood sing a song about talking to trees, which could be either a highlight or a low-light, depending on what you want out of a movie like this.
Eastwood’s dialogue is dubbed into Italian, and he plays a husband who’s become more boring as the years have gone on, frustrating his wife and driving her to escape into fantasy increasingly often. It’s a bizarre and entirely uncharacteristic role for Eastwood, but the novelty of seeing him in a film like this makes it kind of worthwhile.
In a sense, Where Eagles Dare scratches the same itch as some other 1960s World War II movies that are set up almost like heist movies, being comparable to other “dangerous mission” films like The Guns of Navarone and The Dirty Dozen. That following of a formula might mean that Where Eagles Dare lacks narrative surprises, but such things don’t matter when there’s tension, excitement, and action sequences that more than compensate.
Release Date January 18, 1964 Cast Clint Eastwood , Marianne Koch , Gian Maria Volonte , Wolfgang Lukschy , Sieghardt Rupp , Joseph Egger Runtime 99 Main Genre Western 2 'For a Few Dollars More' Director: Sergio Leone An example of a follow-up movie that’s better in just about every way, For a Few Dollars More was the movie that got to run because A Fistful of Dollars walked.
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