A big thank you to my friend Kevin Wilkinson for providing this great shot. To be sure, it has plenty of the obligatory Eastwood violence, and the conventional scene of Eastwood lighting dynamite sticks with his cigar. Surprised to learn that his new traveling companion is a nun, Hogan agrees to escort her to a camp occupied by anti-French revolutionaries. Hogan's fascination with her arrives at its peak when she removes an Indian arrow from his shoulder, having rendering him half insensible by intoxicating him with shots of Whiskey. It seems she's deeply committed to a group of Mexican revolutionaries fighting against the French. Anyway, the movie is a lot better than it might have been.
He escorts the good-looking nun in her mission. Clint Eastwood stars as Hogan, a tough cowboy who rescues a woman, Sara as she's about to be attacked by a trio of rapists. The film opens with its star saving a naked woman from being gang-raped. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defences. A hinny looks a bit more like a horse than a mule does.
Advertisement The story casts Eastwood as the usual tough stranger, making his way through the wilderness on a mysterious mission. She smokes cigars, she drinks whiskey and her language comes to be every day more profane. On horseback and mule hence the title, which I don't like the pair set off on an odyssey that is partly flight from pursuing troops and other dangers, and partly an expedition to plunder and destroy a French garrison at Chihuahua. A cross breed between a male horse and female donkey is called ahinny. How and why they settle on this particular mission is a complex matter, but never mind. The so called 'mules' in 'Two Mules For Sister Sara' are donkeys, or, in Spanish, 'burros'. Though initially attracted to her himself, Eastwood is surprised when he discovers.
Hogan played by Eastwood , agrees to escort her to the camp, since he's already arranged to help them attack the French garrison, in exchange for a portion of the garrison's strongbox if they are successful. Inevitably the two become good friends but Sara has a secret. It is about two girls who are blood sisters and get mixed up during World War I. One drifts into an occupation long taboo in screenland. They are about to rape her, but Eastwood kills the evil bunch.
It was filmed in 1970 and directed by Don Siegel. And somewhere along the way, Eastwood demonstrates that silent comedy isn't entirely dead. There are no known cases of fertile male mules. I'm not sure that it is a great movie, but it is very good, and it stays and grows in the mind the way only movies of exceptional narrative intelligence do. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defenses. One odd fact is that both accidents- Dorleac and Mansfield- happen … ed in l967.
Synopsis Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. Synopsis Director Budd Boetticher wrote the story upon which this comic Western was based. Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970 Screenshots from another edition of Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. After joining her to blow up a French supply train, he is persuaded to help a group of Juaristas led by Colonel Beltran Manolo Fabregas in a final attack on a French garrison. A 'mule' is the offspring of a female horse 'mare' and a male donkey 'jack'. Essentially, just two people: Hogan Clint Eastwood , an American mercenary working for followers of the 19th-century Mexican patriot Juárez, and Sara Shirley MacLaine , a nun whom Hogan rescues from rape by desperadoes but who, as an avid Juarista, is in greater danger from the governing French. Two Mules for Sister Sara is an American western movie starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine.
Miss Shirley MacLaine sparkles in an essentially comic role, and the laconic Eastwood spurs himself and manages sentences of even a dozen words. But within Sara, a most suspicious sister, the tension also exists—and within Hogan as well, for he carries a stick of dynamite near his heart, as a nun might wear her cross, and with his black gunpowder he effects miraculous cures. Director: Writers: , Starring: , , , , , Producers: , ». As Mlle Dorleac was deceased- i don't think the picture was completed. Fortunately for her, he kills them all. Possibly a remake of the infamous Riders on the Storm. Below: An example of the 'Blue' set, note the different artwork used.
Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. He's more than a little surprised when the attractive woman, Sister Sara Shirley MacLaine , dons a habit. The respect turns out to be misplaced when Eastwood discovers Miss Shirley MacLaine isn't exactly a nun, but. I have no idea that the two men collaborated, but I am very glad that both names are involved. One of the pleasures of movies is seeing stars doing their thing. Above: A very rare close up publicity shot for Two Mules for Sister Sara Below: A couple of very nice location shots taken during filming Below: Two Mules for Sister Sara original Universal Banner Below: Three nice examples of Italian Poster art for the film Below: Another 2 examples of great German artwork Above: A French version of the film poster Below: A very nice and what is thought to be an early a pre-production shot, as Clint's costume is not the same as that featured in the film.
Eastwood is riding through the Mexican desert when he comes upon MacLaine, who has been stripped by three men. The malescan't ever reproduce, but they can mate. Once in a great while a female mule proves to be fertile when mated with a horse or donkey, though this is extremely rare. A 'hinny' is the offspring of a male horse 'stallion' and a female donkey 'jenny'. The interesting team gives amusing and tender performances. One collaboration should be mentioned—that of the director, and the film editors Robert Shugrue and Juan José Marino and the great Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The change of image didn't excite the audience leaving the picture with enough nostalgia for the myth of the loner, the super hero, the 'Man With No Name.
A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. And, by the happiest juxtapositions of imagination and talent, it is. The orignal film, made in the twenties, was Banned. But unlike the 'Man With No Name,' Eastwood doesn't turn and ride away. This western almost makes the grade as high-quality moviemaking, but just never quite gets there. Hogan Clint Eastwood is a wonder obliged to neither party.