Clint Eastwood’s Five Best Films (According to Craig)

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Clint Eastwood has 73 credits on his acting resume.  Picking his top five film performances isn’t an easy task.  Depending on my mood, there could even be some changes.  With that said, these are my choices for his five best (in alphabetical order)…

  • Dirty Harry (1971) directed by Don Siegel.  Eastwood’s best known character and the movie that started the Dirty Harry franchise.  

 

  • Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1966) directed by Sergio Leone.  The third and best of the trio of Leone/Eastwood westerns.  The final film in the Man With No Name franchise.

 

  • In the Line of Fire (1993) directed by Wolfgang Peterson.  Eastwood played aging secret service agent Frank Horrigan who is taunted by a former CIA agent out to kill the President.  

 

  • Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) directed by Clint Eastwood.  There are days I consider this Eastwood’s best western.  Yeah, I know… 

 

  • Play Misty for Me (1971) directed by Clint Eastwood.  What a year Eastwood had in 1971.  Play Misty for Me released in November and in December we got Dirty Harry!