Heartbreak Ridge
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Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood), a hard-nosed, hard-living Marine, clashes with his superiors and ex-wife when he takes command of a scouting platoon that has a bad attitude and whom he finds too soft and mushy.
Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, composer, and producer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five* Dirty Harry* films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. His accolades include four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three César Awards, and an AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2000, Eastwood received the Italian Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award, honoring his lifetime achievements.
Photo : Chris Jackson
