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The Gauntlet [1977] [DVD]

DVD ~ Clint Eastwood
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  • Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
  • Directors: Clint Eastwood
  • Writers: Dennis Shryack, Michael Butler
  • Producers: Fritz Manes, Robert Daley
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Aug 1999
  • Run Time: 104 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CZ6P
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,031 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Clint Eastwood is a down-and-out cop who is sent on a routine mission to pick up a witness and deliver her to the Phoenix courthouse. Sounds easy until he realises he's been set up by the man who gave him this simple assignment. The interplay between Eastwood and the witness, a clever prostitute played by the actor's former girlfriend, Sondra Locke, is tough and playful. They obviously had strong chemistry. The story is highly implausible at times, but the action sequences are satisfying. Eastwood directs The Gauntlet very much in the style of his Academy Award-winning Western Unforgiven. Although the body count is surprisingly low for an Eastwood action film, a house, several cars and a large bus get shot through with more holes than a big wheel of Swiss cheese. For Eastwood fans, this is the laconic hero at his prime. --Richard Natale

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Arabic\Dutch\English\French\German\Italian\Portuguese\Spanish


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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Torn between duty and passion, 15 April 2001
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This review is from: The Gauntlet [VHS] [1977] (VHS Tape)
This was the first time we had really witnessed Clint as a vulnerable and insecure character, but it was good to see a more 'human' frailty to the usually iron man image that Clint portrays. A film that deals with one of life's great stalemates - whether we are valued or not? And if so, who by? The Gauntlet is credited to be Clint's most expensive movie to date.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A modern fable..., 16 Mar 2005
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A modern fable from Eastwood wherein Prince Charming is a washed-up alcoholic cop with a bad case of burn-out, the Princess in peril is a foul-mouthed, smartass skinny white hooker and the dragons and villains in need of slaying are bikers, crooked cops and sky-diving helicopters.

Always an artist with a rare eye for taking a risk, Eastwood experiments with a movie that takes the cop action/drama genre and cross breeds it with an urban fairy tale of fantastical proportions. Intended as a piece of slick entertainment rather than a gritty, realistic message movie to be taken seriously, The Gauntlet just about works on the level it is pitched at.

Obviously, no one could ralistically survive the sustained hail of bullets that Eastwood and Locke do throughout it's running time and no law enforcement agency in the civilised worls would be allowed to dispense such firestorms at just two people. If you accept that this film is essentially a shadowy cop fantasy rather than a neo-realistic expose of, say, police corruption, then you may get a fair deal of enjoyment out of it. If you can't, then you probably won't.

Not the most satisfactory of Clint's efforts, it has to be said, yet definitely worth a look for the fans and those willing to suspend disbelief.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously entertaining, 6 May 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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A one-time Steve McQueen-Barbra Streisand vehicle until McQueen met Streisand, and subsequently a Clint Eastwood-Streisand vehicle until Eastwood met Streisand, The Gauntlet sees Clint sending up his Dirty Harry image as a none-too-smart washed out drunken cop escorting Sondra Locke's foul-mouthed "nothing witness in a nothing trial" from Las Vegas to Phoenix and finding the Mob and every cop in two States determined to stop them - even the Vegas bookies are taking bets on ever-lengthening odds (70-1) on their not making it. From the days when Clint still made films in broad daylight and could film interiors without turning all the lights out and seen as wildly over the top at the time (even the famed Frank Frazetta poster art offered Clint as a Conan-esque muscular figure in ripped shirt with girl in one arm and gun in the other), now it's almost an exercise in naturalism for the genre. Sure there's more firepower on display that in all of Eastwood's previous films combined (including both Where Eagles Dare and Kelly's Heroes!), with cars, houses and buses shot to pieces with gleeful abandon while helicopters crash into power lines, but somehow Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack's script manages to sell the increasing absurdities in a perfectly conceived audience picture that's designed to entertain and does just that.

There's a nice line in self-deprecating wit that never quite crosses the line into outright stupidity and Eastwood's tight direction keeps the action moving without losing sight of the fact that it's the characters that really need to sell the film. Just as importantly the onscreen relationship between Eastwood and Locke hadn't overstayed its welcome yet as it quickly would over their subsequent films, their initial vicious sparring giving way to genuinely convincing tenderness in the later scenes, giving you a pair you can actually root for. Great fun if you're not expecting gritty realism - like the end credit says, `Law enforcement procedures depicted in this film do not necessarily depict those of any law enforcement agency mentioned herein.' No **** Sherlock.

Warner's UK 2.35:1 widescreen DVD has slightly better picture quality than the US release but does not include the original theatrical trailer from that issue.

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