The Gauntlet
Summary:
Playing police stooge Ben Shockley, Clint Eastwood sends up his Dirty Harry-ness in this 1977 cop film-action movie-romantic comedy. Ben is assigned to escort tough Vegas hooker Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) to Phoenix for a Mob trial because, he thinks, he always "gets the job done." But corrupt commissioner Blakelock (William Prince) chose alcoholic Ben precisely because Ben doe... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Clint Eastwood - (Ben Shockley)
Sondra Locke - (Gus Mally)
Pat Hingle - (Josephson)
William Prince - (Blakelock)
Bill McKinney - (Constable)
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Review:
In addition to working well as an Eastwood actioner, The Gauntlet should probably serve as ground zero for any study of his films' attitude toward women. Eastwood's hard-living, success-starved cop begins the film as an unrepentant sexist, but after being saddled with an antagonist/love interest Sondra Locke, who more than holds her ... Continue >>
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