Summer Under the Stars: Clint Eastwood
TCM, beginning at 5 a.m.
Clint Eastwood fans, Turner Classic Movies is going ahead and making your day with a lineup of 11 films starring, and in some cases also directed by, the iconic actor/filmmaker. The schedule offers an interesting mix of the famous with the obscure, starting out with some of Eastwood’s earlier film appearances in supporting roles, including the 1956 Ginger Rogers and Carol Channing-led comedy The First Traveling Saleslady and the 1958 war film Lafayette Escadrille starring Tab Hunter. More familiar titles to fans featured today include the TCM premiere of the action/ thriller The Gauntlet (1977), also directed by Eastwood and co-starring his longtime companion Sondra Locke. There will also be some Westerns, naturally — Hang ‘Em High (pictured) (1968) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, also directed by Eastwood) — as well as Magnum Force (1973), the second Dirty Harry thriller; Coogan’s Bluff (1968), the crime thriller that marked the first collaboration between Eastwood and director Don Siegel (Dirty Harry); Every Which Way but Loose (1978), the action/ comedy that first paired Eastwood’s trucker character with a pet orangutan named Clyde; and more.