This meant that once the legal logjam was cleared Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly could all be released within the same year and the Spaghetti Western became a phenomenon and killed Rowdy Yates overnight. As the legal case took its tedious way through the Italian legal system, there was time for Clint Eastwood and Leone to make two more follow ups. Although Fistful of Dollars was a hit in Europe, unfortunately it was blocked in the US because of an ongoing legal case between Leone and Akira Kurosawa who had written to Leone to congratulate him on copying Yojimbo practically shot for shot. Sergio Leone’s masterpiece: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.īut the change wasn’t sudden. Seven seasons can bury a man and Clint Eastwood was getting desperate to breakout, even recording an album of ‘Cowboy Favorites’, but it was the decision to take a Summer job making a Western in Spain, directed by an Italian who spoke no English which changed his career.
When he got a job as an actor, he was soon typecast as a dull handsome type more suited to TV, where he first got his taste for fame as Rowdy Yates, Eric Fleming’s sidekick in the Western show Rawhide. was an ordinary student with little interest beyond music. What is indisputable however is his iconic status, whether as the man with no name for Sergio Leone or Inspector Callahan and his massive contribution to American cinema.
But Clint Eastwood is neither dead nor retired and now he’s 90 years old. Either icons of classic Hollywood – like Humphrey Bogart – or retired craftsmen like Gene Hackman whose work spans decades. Yes, They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That No More: usually in our series, our subjects are long defunct.
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