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Entertainment | 11/25/2008 11:25 am

Clint Eastwood's 10 Most Memorable Movies Amid Retirement Announcement (Images)

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It’s a sad day for movie-goers.

Legend Clint Eastwood announced that he’s retiring from acting. Eastwood, whose career spans five decades, said he’s hanging up his acting hat after the release of his new movie. The 78-year-old, who is perhaps most recognized for his cowboy roles in Western genres, told Britain’s Sunday Express that “Gran Torino” will be the last you will see of him on the big screen. Save the date: December 17. That’s when the movie, which is about a racist Korean War vet, is scheduled to debut.

“That will probably do it for me as far as acting is concerned,” said Eastwood, who won an Academy Award for directing the boxing hit “Million Dollar Baby.” “You always want to quit when you’re ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.”

Eastwood will still be working on movie sets though — but as a producer and director.

“I’ve got no plans to stop making films.”

In honor of Eastwood’s retirement from acting, here are wOw’s ten favorite Clint Eastwood movies.

Tell us: What’s your favorite Clint Eastwood film?

7 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

f p
Fav? The Outlaw Josie Wales and then Million Dollar Baby.
By f p on 11/25/2008 12:49 pm
Sherrie Crews
I can’t possibly name just one. The Outlaw Josie Wales would have to be near the top of the westerns along with Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter. Then again Hang ‘em High and Joe Kidd were so great too. Of the cop or detective genre all fo the Dirty Harry films were wonderful as was Tightrope and, oh my goodness, I can’t even think of the names of all of the ones I’ve loved.
By Sherrie Crews on 11/25/2008 1:08 pm
gulliver fourmyle
let’s not forget ‘Rowdy Yates’ or the overly long ‘The Good, The Bad, The Ugly’—-or that after ‘Rawhide’ Clint was told to ‘get-lost’ by Hollywood—-said his voice, etc. made him useless—-so he goes to Italy—-Americans really think LALA Land the Main source of cinema—-not so—-as the studios once (still do?) Owned ‘Our’ theaters, most really have not seen the world’s best—-and when it comes to cinema, aside from the 30’s-40’s classics, or Orson Wells, the Italians, Japanese, Brazilian, even Mexican, Russian. French, etc., have been churning-out ART—-what do we get? pablum—-save Kubrick ya just don’t become ‘entranced’ by the wonderful tech of ‘hand-held filming’ (makes ya feel you’re there), off-angle shots, so many globally-used photography tools just don’t ‘ring’ LALA’s bells—- so, we get the same ‘bores-my-butt’ TV-Like format—-with rare exception—-as a HS kid, several friends and i would Walk 20miles, RT, to the only ‘Art-Film’ theater, at the University of Tampa—-free admission—-but we saw such as ‘The Bicycle Thief’, ‘Two Women’, La Dolce Vita’, etc.—-WOW, real actors,Real camera-work—-i was hooked—-‘Pasta Westerns’—-just about anything prior to Dr. Strangelove made LALA look just plain dumb—-and it was only shown in ‘drive-inns’! so here’s to Clint’s ‘perhaps’ sexist soul—-and the Italian directors that taught him all he knows—-while, unlike Brando—-he seldom rose to ‘acting’, vs. being a ‘star’, fact remains, as with Bogart—-one ‘on-screen-magnet’—-and they told him he was finished! Ha! Tell that to Dirty Harry—-
By gulliver fourmyle on 11/25/2008 5:51 pm
Patrice Baldwin
All the Dirty Harry films are my faves. But I am bummed that he’s not nearly so handsome as he used to be. He was a knockout… and those shoulders! I think he’s been in the sun too long. He looks like he’s fried and past his sell-by date.
By Patrice Baldwin on 11/25/2008 7:21 pm
gulliver fourmyle
is this a joke? ya haven’t noticed? if you’re 20? where’s the 16-year-old—-and so it goes? you’ll crumple—-yet i know few who see it coming—-
By gulliver fourmyle on 12/02/2008 1:25 am
Patrice Baldwin
Hey Gulliver, please learn punctuation. It’s impossible to understand what you write when I’m tripping over question marks and dashes. What do you mean? joke? 20? 16-year old—-crumple? Please ‘splain it.
By Patrice Baldwin on 12/02/2008 1:09 pm
Belinda Joy
Aaah Clint Eastwood. Well personally my favorite movie he appeared in was The Bridges of Madison County. The scene of Meryl staring out the window as he stood in the yard showering… priceless. But my favorite memory of him is an interview he had with Barbara Walters decades ago that was (for the time) candid and completely unscripted and real. He was actually flirting with her and her him. It was a real moment where we could see behind the movie star persona we have known. Just a guy hitting on a gal….I wish I could find that clip.
By Belinda Joy on 12/06/2008 4:44 pm