Sudden Impact News

Clint Eastwood recently scored one of his greatest commercial successes with Gran Torino , the 30th movie he has directed.

In "Sudden Impact," tough cop Harry Callahan, played by Clint Eastwood, looks with disgust at a hot dog-chomping detective and says, "Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog." Wonder what Dirty Harry would think about putting a dog in Daisy Dukes? That's what one of the winners did in The Plain Dealer's "Dress the Dog" contest.

Okay, it doesn't have the same pop cultural crunch as "Make my day!" or "Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" . But when Clint Eastwood as widowed Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski snarls the line in the new DVD release GRAN TORINO it is enough to make a bunch of young punks in his down-at-the-heels Detroit neighbourhood think twice about ...

Actor, film director and composer Clint Eastwood has enjoyed a long career of big-screen western heroics and loose cannon-policing on screen as well as various behind-the-camera duties, including directing, writing and producing.