EASTWOOD: ABSOLUTE PRESIDENT OUTLAW **SEASON PREMIERE**

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S3 E1 ABSOLUTE PRESIDENT OUTLAW.

Clint Eastwood's Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976,  inspired The Eastwood Rule in the DGA. What is it? Why is it? Does it limit squints per film? Generally considered Clint's first masterpiece as director, Wales also features the first of six pairings with Sondra Locke, whose contentious offscreen relationship with him will form a behind-the-scenes story that will stretch well into 1996. We will be covering the other five films later this season.  This is pretty much the Sondra Locke season. You have been warned.

Then 1997's ABSOLUTE POWER reunites Clint with Gene Hackman, who plays a president who seeks to wield... well, it's in the title. Clint plays a hamburglar who comes for a Big Mac but leaves with a whole mess of trouble! This is the first of two movies Clint would release in 1997, the second is the execrable Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, as covered in our S2 finale. Clint had a busy time off-camera and kept his film crew family working so it's hard to get too angry at his '97 output. Unless you had to sit through them, anyway.

Ken and Jack are joined once again by a fave guest! Screenwriter, host and film scholar, Erik!

THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES: 00:03:36

ABSOLUTE POWER: 00:35:40