"Biography" Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (1994)

Director:

Gene Feldman

TV Series:

"Biography" (1987)

Original Air Date:

11 December 1994

Genre:

Documentary | Biography | History

Plot:

A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, fellow actors and crew members who have worked with him over the years. |

Plot Keywords:

Anthology | Celebrity | One Word Title | Publicity | Reenactment

Cast

Clint Eastwood	...	Himself
Lennie Niehaus	...	Himself
Ted Post	...	Himself
Leonard Hirshan	...	Himself
Buddy Van Horn	...	Himself (as Wayne Van Horn)
Jessica Walter	...	Herself
Henry Bumstead	...	Himself
Michael Cimino	...	Himself
Geneviève Bujold	...	Herself
Gene Hackman	...	Himself
David Valdes	...	Himself
Joel Cox	...	Himself (as Joel E. Cox)
Marsha Mason	...	Herself
Forest Whitaker	...	Himself
Frances Fisher	...	Herself

Directed by
Gene Feldman

Produced by
Gene Feldman	....	producer
Stephen Janson	....	executive producer
Suzette Winter	....	producer

Original Music by
Michael Bacon

Cinematography by
Philip Hurn

Film Editing by
Stephanie Palewski

Art Department
Ian Clark	....	title design

Sound Department
Pam Bartella	....	sound editor
John Lusitana	....	sound
Grant Maxwell	....	sound mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Tom Feldman	....	lighting technician
Joseph Keppler	....	assistant camera
Neil Murphy	....	camera stand

Editorial Department
Richie Jack	....	on-line editor
Alan Oxman	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Lisa Noelle	....	production assistant

Thanks
Dick Guttman	....	thanks
Jerry Pam	....	thanks

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Agnes Nixon		creator

Production Companies

• Wombat Productions

Distributors

• Janson Media (1993) (worldwide) (all media)
• Warner Bros (1994) (USA) (laserdisc)
• Warner Home Video (1994) (USA) (laserdisc)

Other Companies

• Everett Collection  thanks
• Kobal Collection  thanks
• MGM/UA Entertainment Company  thanks (as MGM/UA)
• NBC Studios  thanks (as NBC Archives)
• Universal Pictures  thanks
• Warner Brothers  thanks

Also Known As:

Runtime:

58 min

Country:

USA

Language:

French | Portuguese | Spanish | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-15 (2008)

Company:

Wombat Productions

Trivia:

This documentary can be found on the Two-Disk Special Edition DVD of Dirty Harry (1971), released in 2008.

Movie Connections:

Features Tightrope (1984)

Pretty nice little flashback to Clint's career

If you've seen "Clint Eastwood: Out of the shadows", if you enjoyed watching it and want to see another quite good documentary about him and his works I would have to recommend "Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso" as directed by Gene Feldman. It's seven years older and a little shorter documentary and it naturally tells the same story about the same sensational actor/director but it offers at least some interesting thoughts and new details and information about the man you necessarily haven't heard elsewhere. We hear comments of actors/actresses and filmmakers like Gene Hackman, Ted Post, Michael Cimino, Geneviene Bujold, Forest Whitaker, Joel Cox, Lennie Niehaus and Buddy Van Horn. Of course Eastwood himself tells about his excellent films and incredible career. We see couple of small scenes from tv series "Rawhide" where Clint played the role of Rowdy Yates. It started Eastwood's countdown to superstardom. Breakthrough western "A Fistful of dollars", thriller classic "Dirty Harry", "High plains drifter", Michael Cimino's directorial debut "Thunderbolt and lightfoot", sympathetic "Bronco Billy", "Honkytonk man", one of his darkest movies "Tightrope", fantastic "Pale rider", "Bird" and "White hunter, black heart" followed later on. Documentary offers moments from all of these unforgettable films. At the end camera briefly goes behind the scenes of "Unforgiven". Overall this is a fine tv special about the man who took the name of Malpaso creek for his company and still at the age of 72 keeps on making marvellous motion picture classics. Question is, how are you going to find this one out? I taped "Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso" couple of years ago from television and I guess it's not the easiest documentary to catch nowadays.