{"id":30441,"date":"2022-08-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30441"},"modified":"2022-08-28T13:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T17:41:04","slug":"the-gauntlet-1977-starring-clint-eastwood-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30441","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Gauntlet&#8221; (1977) Starring Clint Eastwood \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z083122zview_theguantlet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"744\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Gauntlet <\/strong><\/em>(1977)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Clint Eastwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Michael Butler,\u00a0 Dennis Shryack<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince<\/strong> and <strong>Bill McKinney<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Clint Eastwood is the man in the middle of The Gauntlet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben Shockley (Eastwood) is a Phoenix cop who drinks too much and does just enough to get by on the job.\u00a0 So when Police Commissioner Blakelock (Prince) personally choses him to go to Las Vegas to extradite a &#8220;nothing witness&#8221; for a &#8220;nothing trial&#8221;, Shockley doesn&#8217;t think too much of it.\u00a0 Gus Malley, the &#8220;nothing witness&#8221;, turns out to be Augustine Malley (Locke).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malley claims that she is has information on government officials with mob ties and that she&#8217;s been targeted for execution.\u00a0 She tells Shockley that he was chosen because no one would question him not getting her safely back.\u00a0 When Shockley and Malley are nearly killed, he realizes she&#8217;s right.\u00a0 Important people with ties to the mob and police have made it their mission to kill Shockley and Malley&#8230; and Shockley&#8217;s made it his to get her back safely to testify!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben Shockley is the opposite of <em>Dirty Harry<\/em>, but Eastwood is just as convincing in this role.\u00a0 Gus Malley is played by Sandra Locke, Eastwood&#8217;s off screen lover at the time.\u00a0 \u00a0Pat Hingle has a small but important role as Shockley&#8217;s friend on the force.\u00a0 William Prince is excellent as the slimy Police Commissioner.\u00a0 Eastwood puts just the right amount of humor in <em>The Gauntlet<\/em>.\u00a0 And how about that Frank Frazetta poster?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><i>The Gauntlet<\/i> earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z083122zview_theguantlet2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gauntlet (1977) Director: Clint Eastwood Screenplay by: \u00a0Michael Butler,\u00a0 Dennis Shryack Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30442,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441\/revisions\/30442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}