Playboy Interview: Clint Eastwood

February, 1974

Playboy Interview: Clint EastwoodAbout ten years ago, rumors started drifting back to Hollywood that a new movie, directed by an Italian, shot in Spain and starring an American actor hitherto known only for his labors as the second lead in the moderately popular television series "Rawhide," was packing moviehouses from Rome to Frankfurt. Studio heads shrugged. Flash in the pan, they said, scornfully dubbing "A Fistful of Dollars" a spaghetti Western. When "Fistful"...