Catch Your Favorite Clint Eastwood Movies on Satellite TV

Clint Eastwood is one of the most enduring sex symbols of our time. He is the epitome of masculine, laconic California cool. It's hard to believe that he actually turned 80-years-old earlier this year! And yet the man has showed no signs of slowing down. In the past few years he has directed films such as Changeling with Angelina Jolie, Invictus with Matt Damon, and Flags of Our Fathers, about World War II. He has also acted in Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino, both of which he directed as well.

While it could be easy to fall in love with the older, leathered Clint while watching his recent offerings, don't forget about all of the television and movies from the 1960s and 1970s that made him famous! If you have satellite TV, you can probably see much of his early work on classic movies channels. Here's a breakdown of the best ones to watch.

Dirty Harry

This 1971 film catapulted Eastwood into absolute superstardom. In it, he plays San Francisco police officer Harry Callahan, a quiet, no frills widower who takes the pursuit of a local deranged serial killer into his own hands when the law provides too many barriers and technicalities. The film produced four sequels - Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool - the last of which was released in1988. The series has produced a number of memorable quotations, including "You've gotta ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?" and "Go ahead, make my day" (the latter from 1983's Sudden Impact). When asked in interviews whether or not he would make a sixth Dirty Harry movie, Eastwood often jokes that Harry Callahan would have to chase down the bad guys with his walker!

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

This 1966 spaghetti western was directed by Sergio Leone, and you will certainly find it on the classic movies channels that you can include in your satellite TV package. It was the final chapter in the critically claimed "Dollars" series (the preceding films were the excellent A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More), although you can easily pick up the plot without watching the first two films. Eastwood plays "Blondie" or "The Man With No Name", a reticent, phlegmatic bounty hunter in the Old West. Eastwood's classic masculinity makes for a perfect cowboy, the film's stunning landscapes are even better in HD.

The Beguiled

This 1971 Southern Gothic is not the best-known Eastwood film, but it is worth watching if it comes on your satellite TV nonetheless. Eastwood plays a Yankee soldier who is severely injured and left for dead in Confederate territory during the Civil War. He is rescued and brought to health in a boarding school for girls, largely by a reluctant headmistress who harbors secret feelings for the injured but strikingly handsome enemy soldier. After the soldier recovers and has a few dalliances with the decidedly younger pupils, the headmistress becomes jealous, and insanity pursues. The film's biggest plot twist would be too much of a spoiler to write about here, but suffice to say the look of sheer terror and pain on Eastwood's face when confronted by the headmistress' deranged actions is the most emotional acting the man has done to date.

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