The year was 1977, and it was a particularly interesting year in Clint Eastwood’s life.
He was in the midst of a drastic image change, brought upon by his irritation with critics’ perceptions of him and his characters.
The Gauntlet was filmed that same year and the result was representative of his perpetual metamorphosis.
Eastwood loved to play around with his mythos, and the action thriller film interestingly becomes personal, as it mixes aspects of his real-life turmoil and the cultural shift the world was entering.
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