The Clint Eastwood Collection: Volume 1

A box set of five Clint Eastwood films. 'Where Eagles Dare' (1968), set during World War II, sees seven Allied agents selected to rescue an American general from the impenetrable German fortress Schloss Adler. In charge of the team is British Major Smith (Richard Burton), with American Lieutenant Schaffer (Eastwood) as second in command. Parachuting into the enemy territory in German uniforms, the squad discover one of their number dead on arrival, and Smith suspects that he may have a traitor amongst his unit. Alistair Maclean wrote the screenplay and the film is reported to be amongst director Quentin Tarantino's favourites. In 'City Heat' (1984) Prohibition-era Private Eye Mike Murphy (Burt Reynolds) is forced to team up with his former colleague, taciturn Kansas cop Lieutenant Speer (Eastwood), when his partner Dehl Swift (Richard Roundtree) falls foul of the mobs' rough justice. Less than enamoured with each other, but with common aims, the unlikely duo set about bringing the city's gangster bosses to book. 'Heartbreak Ridge' (1986) sees Eastwood direct and star in this film about an ageing, foul-mouthed Marine instructor who is given the job of training recruits for combat. He also has to tackle problems with his ex-wife and an increasingly bureaucratic Marine command while hurriedly preparing his charges for the invasion of Grenada. In 'Pink Cadillac' (1989) Eastwood stars as the bounty hunter Tommy Nowak 'Skip' Tracer, the man who pulls in the fraudsters and the conmen. He finally meets his match when he is sent to trail one Lou Ann McQuinn, who has jumped bail and disappeared in her husband's bright pink Cadillac. Whilst 'White Hunter, Black Heart'. (1990) sees Eastwood produce, direct and star. Despite the end message which announces this film to be fiction, this is the thinly-veiled story of film director John Huston and the making of his 1951 classic `The African Queen'. Wilson (Eastwood) is a selfish charmer, fascinated by big-game hunting and determined to shoot an elephant.

Director: Brian G. Hutton
Director: Clint Eastwood
Director: Richard Benjamin
Director: Buddy van Horn
Producer: Jay Weston
Producer: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Fritz Manes
Writer: Alistair MacLean
Writer: James Carabatos
Writer: Peter Viertel
Writer: James Bridges
Writer: Burt Kennedy
Producer: Elliott Kastner
Writer: Joseph C. Stinson
Writer: Sam O. Brown
Music: Lennie Niehaus
Music: Ron Goodwin
Actor: Clint Eastwood
Actor: Richard Burton
Actor: Marsha Mason
Actor: Everett McGill
Actor: Eileen Heckart
Actor: Moses Gunn
Actor: Timothy Carhart
Actor: Jim Carrey
Actor: Bo Svenson
Actor: Mary Ure
Actor: Mario Van Peebles
Actor: Arlen Dean Snyder
Actor: Jeff Fahey
Actor: George Dzundza
Actor: Burt Reynolds
Actor: James Cromwell
Actor: Michael Hordern
Actor: Alun Armstrong
Actor: Jane Alexander
Actor: Madeline Kahn
Actor: Irene Cara
Actor: Tony Lo Bianco
Actor: Bernadette Peters
Actor: Patrick Wymark
Actor: Marisa Berenson
Actor: Richard Roundtree
Actor: Robert Beatty
Actor: Timothy Spall
Actor: William Sanderson
Actor: Ferdy Mayne
Actor: Rip Torn
Actor: Anton Diffring
Actor: Donald Houston
Actor: Ingrid Pitt
Actor: Derren Nesbitt
Actor: Peter Barkworth