Go ahead, punk, mark down June 4 on your calendar, because that’s when Warner Home Video is releasing The Clint Eastwood 40 Film Collection ($ 179.98) . . . or just pre-order and forget about the calendar business, that works too.
Also announced is The Clint Eastwood 20 Film Collection ($ 129.95), which has a couple of advantages over the 40 film collection, the primary one being that the 40 film collection is on DVD and the 20 film collection is on Blu-ray. However, it’s also worth noting that the 20 film collection is mostly sure-fire hits (like Unforgiven, Mystic River, and the criminally underrated Gran Torino), and the 40 film collection includes flops like Pink Cadillac. However, both collections include Eastwood’s adventures with an orang-utan in Every Which Way but Loose, which just goes to show that there are compromises in life. Horrible, horrible compromises.
40 Film Collection Titles
1. A Perfect World
2. Absolute Power
3. Any Which Way You Can
4. Bird
5. Blood Work
6. Bronco Billy
7. City Heat
8. Dirty Harry
9. Every Which Way But Loose
10. Firefox
11. Gran Torino
12. Heartbreak Ridge
13. Hereafter
14. Honkytonk Man
15. Invictus
16. J. Edgar
17. Kelly’s Heroes
18. Letters from Iwo Jima
19. Magnum Force
20. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
21. Million Dollar Baby
22. Mystic River
23. Pale Rider
24. Pink Cadillac
25. Space Cowboys
26. Sudden Impact
27. The Bridges of Madison County
28. The Dead Pool
29. The Enforcer
30. The Gauntlet
31. The Outlaw Josey Wales
32. The Rookie
33. Tightrope
34. Trouble with the Curve
35. True Crime
36. Unforgiven
37. Where Eagles Dare
38. White Hunter Black Heart
39. Eastwood Factor Documentary
40. Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story Documentary
20 Film Collection Titles
1. A Perfect World
2. Dirty Harry
3. Every Which Way But Loose
4. Firefox
5. Gran Torino
6. Heartbreak Ridge
7. Hereafter
8. Invictus
9. J. Edgar
10. Letters from Iwo Jima
11. Magnum Force
12. Million Dollar Baby
13. Mystic River
14. Pale Rider
15. Space Cowboys
16. Sudden Impact
17. The Gauntlet
18. The Outlaw Josey Wales
19. Trouble with the Curve
20. Unforgiven
21. Eastwood Factor Documentary
22. Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story Documentary