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Dave Bautista said his In the Lost Lands character is inspired by Clint Eastwood’s Westerns. Eastwood starred in a handful of genre films before the Dollars Trilogy, where he played his career's most iconic role.

In the Lost Lands cast Dave Bautista in a uniquely familiar role. He plays Boyce, a hunter who joins a witch in her search for a magical gift that would transform their queen to a werewolf. That premise screams adventure fantasy, but Bautista’s character has all the earmarks of a Spaghetti Western cowboy. The actor confirmed this with DiscussingFilm, describing the movie as a “Western stuck in a fantasy world”. He knew he was onboard after reading the opening narration. “I’d been looking to play a cowboy, and all day long I was just thinking ‘Clint Eastwood, what would Clint Eastwood do?’” he explained.

The Dollars Trilogy, Unforgiven, and High Plains Drifter...

2025 will officially mark Clint Eastwood's 70th year in the film industry. That's just five years short of the average life expectancy for American men, so you could absolutely call that a magnificent run even if all he ever did was play baddies and barkeeps since the Eisenhower administration. Of course, Eastwood has done a tad more than that. In collaboration with filmmakers Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Eastwood played a major role in reconfiguring, respectively, the Western and crime genres. He's also won the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director twice (for "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby"), and, at the age of 94, will release his latest directorial effort, "Juror #2," this November.

Eastwood's been so successful for so long that it's difficult to accept that he ever truly struggled. But 94 years is a long damn time, and film stardom didn't arrive for this big-screen icon until he was in his 30s.

Clint Eastwood may be one of Hollywoods biggest names and most generational talents, but that doesnt mean that every movie hes been involved with has been a hit. For every Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven comes an Ambush At Cimarron Pass, which was Clint Eastwoods biggest critical failure upon its release in 1958. Eastwood was integral in the development of the Western genre in the USA, and while most of his projects helped progress the industry, this box office bomb did the opposite.

Luckily, despite the backlash that Ambush at Cimarron Pass received at the time, it didnt prevent Eastwood from making some great movies in the decades that followed. His career continued to grow, he was given plenty more parts, and people eventually forgot about this small misstep. However, the project is still clearly bugging the actor, as he revealed in an interview with Hollywood Reporter that he considers it the worst movie ever made.

Is there a more iconic American actor than Clint Eastwood? Indeed, his name has been at the forefront of many discussions of the most influential and iconic actors on the screen. His career spans decades of content curated to his strong persona and clear artistic direction when behind the camera. Still, one genre that Eastwood has become synonymous with is the Western; both the starting point and the final farewell of his career have been steeped in the genre.

We will examine Eastwood's impact on the Western and outline how you can stream all of his movies in the genre online; what better way to celebrate the American icon?

How to Watch Every Clint Eastwood Western

The below lists every Western where Clint Eastwood had a prominent role. This excludes his early appearances in Star in the Dust and The First Traveling Saleslady, with an uncredited role in one and...

Clint Eastwood was already established and older than expected when he starred in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Most of Eastwood's iconic Westerns were Spaghetti Westerns, known for graphic violence and moral ambiguity. Blondie in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is still Clint Eastwood's defining and most iconic performance.

While The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly might be Clint Eastwoods most famous role, the actor was already both established and older than viewers might assume by the time he starred in the Spaghetti Western. As an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has had the unique privilege of starring in three distinct eras of the Western genre. As a young emerging actor in the 1950s, Eastwood appeared in Technicolor Westerns such as Star in the Dust and Ambush at Cimarron Pass. Rawhide cemented the actors status as a genre mainstay, but he soon helped revolutionize the Western's image.

Clint Eastwood is an undisputed living legend in Hollywood. Over the course of nearly 70 years, Eastwood has built an award-winning array of performances and directorial efforts that only a handful of his peers have come close to. And at 93, he is still working, with the upcoming Juror #2, which he is directing, rumored to be Eastwood's last (although it would likely surprise no one if he picked up another "final" project). Yet like every other Hollywood actor, Eastwood has made appearances in films that are either great, like Unforgiven, or... not so much, like Ambush at Cimarron Pass, a film that Eastwood himself claims to be the worst film ever made. Not only the worst film, but one that had him convinced that his days as an actor were through. But is it really the worst, or, more specifically, even his worst? Let's take a look.

Clint Eastwood perfected the archetype of the witty, fast-shooting gunslinger in his Western films through collaboration with acclaimed directors. Not all Eastwood roles were deadly gunslingers; some showed complexity and romantic entanglements, like McBee in The Beguiled. Eastwood's portrayal of deadly gunslingers like Joe Kidd and The Stranger showcased intense, rough characters with layers of complexity.

Legend of the Western genre Clint Eastwood has played several deadly gunslingers across his acclaimed career. From Spaghetti Westerns to Hollywood blockbusters, Eastwood perfected the archetype of the witty, fast-shooting, lone anti-hero who was consistently embroiled in shootouts, standoffs, and vicious bar fights. Through Eastwood's work with acclaimed directors like Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, as well as the many movies he directed himself, Eastwood played countless intimidating, tough, and skilled gunslingers who left their mark on the often brutal and deadly landscape of the Wild West.

While Eastwood did appear in plenty of Western movies,...

Margia Dean, who co-starred in the cult sci-fi classic The Quatermass Xperiment and appeared alongside the likes of Clint Eastwood, Vincent Price, Esther Williams and George Reeves in other movies, has died. She was 101.

Dean died June 23 in her apartment in Rancho Cucamonga, California, her niece Denyse Barr told The Hollywood Reporter.

From 1948-56, Dean worked in about 20 features for producer Robert L. Lippert, founder of the B-movie studio Lippert Pictures, thus earning the nickname “The Queen of Lippert.”

She acted for Sam Fuller in two of those films, the first two features he ever directed, in fact — I Shot Jesse James (1949), in which she portrayed a saloon singer, and the Price-starring The Baron of Arizona (1950).

Based on a popular BBC serial, Hammer Films’ The Quatermass Xperiment (1956), directed by Val Guest and starring Brian Donlevy, told the story of an astronaut (Richard Wordsworth) who crash-lands back on Earth and...

Not only was A Fistful Of Dollars a breakthrough for Clint Eastwood's career, it also shattered one major taboo regarding movie violence. Eastwood's early career was filled with small, sometimes uncredited parts in various movies and TV shows, but after filming 1958's "lousy" Western Ambush At Cimarron Pass, he considered quitting the business entirely. Eastwood's fortunes changed when he was cast as Rawhide's Rowdy Yates, but it was A Fistful Of Dollars that truly made him a star. This low-budget Italian was an unofficial riff on Yojimbo, and its success practically led to the creation of the Spaghetti Western subgenre.

Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy never shied away from bloodshed and even decades later, some of these scenes have lost none of their power, such as Eli Wallach's vicious beating in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. A Fistful Of Dollars introduced a new cinematic style and language to Westerns,...

By Pete Hammond

Hollywoodnews.com: Halloween must be around the corner. It was clearly a supernatural week at the movies led by Paranormal Activity 2 (more on that below) and highlighted by the national release of Clint Eastwood’s masterful new drama, Hereafter, a multi-story formatted film in which three unrelated main characters search for meaning after experiencing death – or near-death- episodes that have a profound effect on their lives. The film opened on a limited basis last weekend in La and NY to a very good $36,000 per screen and this week expanded to 2181 theatres and a $12 million plus gross which is slightly above par for Eastwood openings. Its Rotten Tomatoes rating though is a rather uninspired 51% although top critics give it a much higher 64% which seems more appropriate considering the ambition and the achievement of this intriguing film written by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Last King Of Scotland). Warner...