All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Clint Eastwood, ranked

In 1862, during the American Civil War, a trio of bounty hunters attempt to kill fugitive Mexican bandit Tuco Ramírez. Angel Eyes allows Stevens to tell Jackson the new name Bill Carson. Meanwhile, Tuco is rescued from three bounty hunters by a nameless drifter to whom Tuco refers as #Blondie#, who delivers him to the local sheriff to collect his $2,000 bounty.

The man that many call Manco is a bounty hunter, a profession shared by a former army officer, Colonel Douglas Mortimer. While murdering the family of the man who captured him, Indio carries a musical pocketwatch that he had taken from a young woman, who had shot herself as he was raping her, after he had murdered her husband. Manco achieves this by freeing a friend of Indio’s from prison despite Indio’s suspicions.

Margaret, a waitress from a Missouri town in the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a run-down Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn, an old cantankerous Irish-American boxing trainer. Maggie works out tirelessly each day in his gym, even after Frankie tells her she’s too old to begin a boxing career at her age.

Three boys, Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle play hockey in a Boston street in 1975, when Dave is kidnapped by two men and sexually abused for four days before managing to escape. 25 years later, the boys are grown and, while they still live in Boston, have drifted apart. Jimmy is an ex-con running a neighborhood convenience store.

In 2005, Japanese archaeologists explore tunnels on Iwo Jima, where they find something in the dirt. Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrives to take command of the garrison and immediately begins an inspection of the island defenses. He saves Saigo and his friend Kashiwara from a beating by Captain Tanida for ‘unpatriotic speeches’, and orders the men to begin tunneling underground defenses into Mount Suribachi.

A mysterious newcomer arrives in the Mexican border town of San Miguel, a place torn apart by rival factions vying for control. On one side are those allied with Sheriff John Baxter, engaging in the sale of whiskey and firearms to the indigenous people. On the other side is the faction led by Ramon Rojo. Upon entering the town, the Man With No Name is subjected to taunts from the Baxters, who even go so far as to shoot at his mule’s feet.

A mysterious newcomer arrives in the Mexican border town of San Miguel, a place torn apart by rival factions vying for control. On one side are those allied with Sheriff John Baxter, engaging in the sale of whiskey and firearms to the indigenous people. On the other side is the faction led by Ramon Rojo. Upon entering the town, the Man With No Name is subjected to taunts from the Baxters, who even go so far as to shoot at his mule’s feet.

Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and young son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawker militants from Senator James H. Lane’s Kansas Brigade, led by the brutal Captain Terrill. Wales refuses to surrender, and as a result, he and a young guerrilla named Jamie are the only survivors when Terrill’s Redlegs massacre the surrendering men.

A psychopathic sniper, later referred to as Scorpio, shoots a woman while she swims in a rooftop pool. He shoots two robbers and holds a third at gunpoint with his Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver, bluffing him to surrender with an ultimatum:

During World War II, a British aircraft is shot down and crashes in Nazi held territory. The Germans capture the only survivor, American Brigadier General George Carnaby, who is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that’s nearly impossible to breach. It’s up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it’s too late.

In early 1960, Frank Morris, a prisoner with an exceptional I.Q. who has absconded from other facilities, arrives at the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. Soon after arriving, he is summoned to the office of the warden, who curtly informs him that Alcatraz is unique within the U.S. prison system for its exceedingly high level of security and that no inmate has ever successfully escaped.

In the present, adult siblings Michael and Carolyn Johnson arrive at their recently deceased mother’s Iowa farmhouse to settle her estate. While sorting through Francesca’s will and safe deposit box, which contains a key, they are shocked by their mother’s request to be cremated and have her ashes scattered from Roseman Covered Bridge.