Three Classic Clint Eastwood Favorites Coming To 4K Ultra HD On 4/29/2025
From the Warner Brothers press release:
Three films from legendary filmmaker Clint Eastwood – Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josie Wales and Pale Rider (40th anniversary), will be released for the first time on 4K Ultra HD and Digital on April 29.
2021 marked the 50th year of Clint Eastwood’s partnership with Warner Bros., which began in 1971 with the release of Dirty Harry. Over the course of his remarkable career, Eastwood, a 4-time Academy Award winner, has received a number of lifetime and career achievement honors, including the Motion Picture Academy’s Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award. He has also garnered tributes from the Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Film Institute, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the French Film Society, the National Board of Review, and the Henry Mancini Institute. He is also the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, the California Governor’s Award for the Arts, and France’s Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur.
About the films:
DIRTY HARRY - 1971Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars as no-holds-barred San Francisco cop Dirty Harry Callahan in this action thriller that began an action franchise. When detective Harry Callahan is assigned to pay extortion money to a serial murderer, the payoff goes wrong. Now with the life of a 14-year-old girl at stake, Callahan refuses to allow anything--including the law--to keep him from stopping the killer.
The film is directed by Don Siegel. The screenplay is by Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, and Dean Riesner from a story by Harry Julian Fink and R.M. Fink. The film is produced by Don Siegel. Dirty Harry stars Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, and John Vernon.
Dirty Harry was selected in 2008 by Empire as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. The film was ranked No. 41 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years ... 100 Thrills, a list of America's most heart-pounding movies, and Harry Callahan was selected as the 17th greatest movie hero on 100 Years ... 100 Heroes & Villains. The movie's famous quote "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" was ranked 51st on 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes.
In February 2025, the 4K remaster of the film premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival as part of the Berlinale Classics program which showcases digitally restored film classics.
Dirty Harry 4K UHD contains the following new and previously released special features:
- Commentary by Richard Schickel
- Generations and Dirty Harry - NEW
- Lensing Justice: The Cinematography of Dirty Harry - NEW
- American Masters Career Retrospective: Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
- Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
- Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Fighting for Justice
- Interview Gallery
- Patricia Clarkson
- Joel Cox
- Clint Eastwood
- Hal Holbrook
- Evan Kim
- John Milius
- Ted Post
- Andy Robinson
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Robert Urich
- Dirty Harry’s Way
- Dirty Harry: The Original
THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALES - 1976Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars in and directs this fast-paced Western about the fight for vengeance by a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered in the last days of the United States' Civil War.
The film is directed by Clint Eastwood. The screenplay is by Phil Kaufman and Sonia Chernus and is based on the novel “Gone to Texas” by Forrest Carter. The film is produced by Robert Daly. The Outlaw Josie Wales stars Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, and John Vernon.
The Outlaw Josey Wales was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score. In 1996, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
The Outlaw Josie Wales 4K UHD contains the following new and previously released special features:
- Commentary by Richard Schickel
- An Outlaw and an Antihero - NEW
- The Cinematography of and Outlaw: Crafting Josie Wales - NEW
- Clint Eastwood’s West
- Eastwood in Action
- Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josie Wales
- Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Reinventing the West
PALE RIDER - 1985With 1985's Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood returned to the western genre with a vengeance as the movie became the highest grossing western of that decade. Eastwood, who also directed the hit film, plays a nameless stranger who rides into a small California gold rush town (and becomes known as the "Preacher") where he finds himself in the middle of a feud between a mining syndicate and a group of independent prospectors.
The film is produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack. The film stars Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny, Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath, and John Russell.
Pale Rider 4K UHD contains the following new and previously released special features:
- The Diary of Sydney Penny: Lessons from the Set - NEW
- Painting the Preacher: Bruce Surtees and Pale Rider - NEW
- Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Reinventing Westerns
- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
- The Eastwood Factor
DIRTY HARRYUltra HD Blu-ray Languages: English, Spanish, French
Ultra HD Blu-ray Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French
Run Time: 102 minutes
Rating: R
Standard Street Date: 4/29/2025
THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALESUltra HD Blu-ray Languages: English, Spanish, French
Ultra HD Blu-ray Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French
Run Time: 135 minutes
Rating: PG
Standard Street Date: 4/29/2025
PALE RIDERUltra HD Blu-ray Languages: English, Spanish, French
Ultra HD Blu-ray Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French
Run Time: 116 minutes
Rating: R
Street Date: 4/29/202
Another three classic movies coming to 4K UHD by Warner Brothers! I'm sure there will plenty of fans picking these up.
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