The Gauntlet
The Gauntlet

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In Phoenix, Arizona, alcoholic and mediocre Detective Ben Shockley (Clint Eastwood) is assigned by Chief Commissioner Blakelock (William Prince) to bring witness Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) from Las Vegas, Nevada for a minor trial. Shockley travels to Las Vegas and finds that Gus Mally is an aggressive and intelligent prostitute with a college degree and she tells him that the odds are against her showing up in court. Shockley learns that she will actually testify against a powe... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Gauntlet:

Clint Eastwood
Sondra Locke
Pat Hingle
William Prince
Bill McKinney
Michael Cavanaugh

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In Phoenix, Arizona, alcoholic and mediocre Detective Ben Shockley (Clint Eastwood) is assigned by Chief Commissioner Blakelock (William Prince) to bring witness Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) from Las Vegas, Nevada for a minor trial. Shockley travels to Las Vegas and finds that Gus Mally is an aggressive and intelligent prostitute with a college degree and she tells him that the odds are against her showing up in court. Shockley learns that she will actually testify against a powerful mobster, and the mafia is chasing them, trying to kill them both. He calls Blakelock and requests a Police escort from Phoenix to protect them. But soon, he discovers that someone is betraying him in the Police Department. Now, Shockley and Malley hijack a bus and Shockley welds thick steel plates and transforms the cabin in an armored bus trying to reach the Forum. But they will need to drive through a gauntlet of Police Officers armed with heavy weapons.

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Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Roger EbertThe Gauntlet is classic Clint Eastwood: fast, furious, and funny. It tells a cheerfully preposterous story with great energy and a lot of style, and nobody seems more at home in this sort of action movie than Eastwood.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review - 8/10 by Michael A. SmithEastwood good, Locke bad. Good finale though.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 7/10 by Emanuel LevyA crime picture in which Clint Eastwood departs quite effectively from his Dirty Harry character
Washington Post - 7/10 by Gary ArnoldVicious and hypocritical as it is, "The Gauntlet" remains an entertaining sort of disreputable show, considerably more proficient and interesting than junk melodramas in a dogged vein...
Newsweek - 7/10 by David AnsenVicious and hypocritical as it is, The Gauntlet remains an entertaining sort of disreputable show, considerably more proficient and interesting than junk melodramas in a dogged vein.
Capital Times (Madison, WI) - 7/10 by Rob ThomasA pretty effective string of action set pieces
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - 6/10 by Stephen GodfreyIt is a movie without a single thought in its head, but its action sequences are so ferociously staged that it's impossible not to pay attention most of the time.
Variety - 6/10 by Variety StaffIn a major role reversal, Clint Eastwood stars in The Gauntlet as a person who might be on the receiving end of the violence epitomized in his famed Dirty Harry film series.
The New Yorker - 5/10 by Pauline KaelIt's telling that the film is still only truly memorable for the closing five minute bulletfest, which turns Clint's bus into the only thing with more holes in it than the screenplay.
Combustible Celluloid - 5/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonIt's an absurdly violent tale, but the violence eventually reaches an almost avant-garde, visual dimension.

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