Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment Tabs Apr. 29 As The Street Date For 4K Ultra HD Editions Of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales And Pale Rider

There was stunning news from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment this past week on the 4K Ultra HD front.   Mark it down, Apr 29 will be the street for three new 4K Ultra HD film classics celebrating a 50-year relationship between the studio and Clint Eastwood.

Yes!  The lead title in the mix is director Don Siegel’s Christmas-season of 1971 film release of Dirty Harry, which teamed Clint Eastwood with his mentor Siegel and the move of Eastwood’s Malpaso production company from Universal (Coogan’s Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, Play Misty for Me) to Warner Bros.

The teacher, Don Siegel, showed Eastwood how to shoot fast and get it done on time and under-budget … he also encouraged him to take a shot at being a director with Play Misty for Me.   The results that followed speak for themselves.

Dirty Harry arrives on 4K Ultra HD with a vintage commentary track by film critic Richard Schickel, two newly-prepared featurettes — “Generations and Dirty Harry” and “Lensing Justice: The Cinematography of Dirty Harry” — two vintage featurettes — “Dirty Harry’s Way” and “Dirty Harry: The Original.”

There is also an extensive “interview gallery,” featuring the likes of Andy Robinson, Hal Holbrook, Patricia Clarkson, Eastwood and more, plus three “retrospectives” — documentary filmmaker Bruce Rider’s 2000 feature-length presentation of American Masters Career Retrospective: Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows, documentary filmmaker Bruce Riker’s feature-length film titled Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso and the 2021 mini-series titled Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy.

The other two Eastwood films getting the 4K Ultra HD treatment from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment on Apr. 29 are The Outlaw Josie Wales and Pale Rider, both directed by Eastwood.

The Outlaw Josie Wales (1976) co-stars Sondra Locke along with John Vernon, Chief Dan George and Bill McKinney and comes loaded with extras.   There is a vintage commentary from film critic Richard Schickel, two new featurettes — “An Outlaw and an Antihero” and “The Cinematography of and Outlaw: Crafting Josie Wales” — and four additional featurettes: “Clint Eastwood’s West,” “Eastwood in Action,” “Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josie Wales” and “Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Reinventing the West.”

And lastly, a 40th Anniversary Edition of Pale Rider, which features two newly-prepared featurettes — “The Diary of Sydney Penny: Lessons from the Set” and “Painting the Preacher: Bruce Surtees and Pale Rider” — plus three vintage pieces: “Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Reinventing Westerns,” “Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story” and “The Eastwood Factor.”