The Gauntlet Comments

  • Bonnie 2023-09-13 20:40:35

    The interaction between the male and female protagonists is very interesting, and the ending is a little idealized, a movie I watched a long time...

  • Freddie 2023-08-06 03:29:13

    It's comedy, it's comedy, it's...

  • Nella 2023-07-29 16:57:54

    Bruce Willis' Brave 16th...

  • Bertha 2023-07-24 02:06:08

    The old man has also made movies that are so bad that they can't be scrutinized with the thinking of earth people,...

  • Ressie 2023-06-03 10:48:40

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  • Constantin 2023-05-21 15:06:58

    In 1976, Eastwood grabbed Locke, annoyed the DGA, and came up with the Eastwood Rule. This is their first movie after this, and there is still a bit of affection in the end. At this time, the 47-year-old Clint also showed a rare youthful madness and high-spiritedness, and the brilliance on his face was invincible. It was the first time I saw him in a movie that his legs were so painful that he couldn't straighten...

  • Jedidiah 2023-05-21 11:05:13

    It's okay, remember that the woman took the initiative to dedicate herself to distract the opponent's attention, and the green light suddenly appeared on her back, a few...

  • Treva 2023-05-15 14:12:22

    There are two unforgettable scenes in this film: a group of police officers surrounded a wooden house and shot frantically until the house collapsed; more police officers stood on both sides of the street and surrounded Dongmu's bus frantically shooting (why didn't they hit the wheels?) . The director borrowed the style of Parkin's method, the editing is broken, the gunshots are dense, very hysterical and very neurotic, but also unique. The main line is very ridiculous. Police Dongmu was sent...

  • Harley 2023-05-12 12:44:50

    Resource Name: Iron Gloves. Smart woman, college-educated prostitute, clear thinking and logical. I rarely see a movie starring Sondra Locke. The big scene of the gunfight, the bullet marks are real, and the gunfire is...

  • Marietta 2023-04-08 16:44:13

    Hollywood movies of the 70's. Clint Eastwood. The experiment explored its own screen image. The revered genre and the neat and efficient editing style evoke the steady demure of classical studio films. no...

Extended Reading
  • Shyanne 2022-10-16 22:50:41

    8000 bullets shot at him!

    The police and gangster film "Gauntlet" (1977), directed and starred by Dongmu, is rarely mentioned, but it is actually a typical 70'-style drama.

The Gauntlet quotes

  • Ben Shockley: [to the prone female inmate feigning sleep] Hit the deck, Mally.

    [to the warden]

    Ben Shockley: Did she have anything to eat?

    Jail Matron: Just a cup of coffee this morning.

    Ben Shockley: [inspecting the empty mug] Yeah. Looks like she smoked a few cigarettes and put the ashes in the coffee.

    [the girl lifts up her head to look at him]

    Ben Shockley: Old army trick. She wanted to look sick.

    Gus Mally: [jumps up from the bunk, tries darting away, is caught] Let me go! They're gonna kill me! I want a fucking lawyer!

    [he slaps her, she falls back onto the bunk, looking up at him ruefully]

    Gus Mally: Terrific! My life on the line and they send me an on-the-ropes bum!

    Ben Shockley: What kind of record she have?

    Jail Matron: Hooker.

    Ben Shockley: [to the girl] You see, we got a problem, you and me. We don't like each other very much, but we have to take a trip together. Now you can come along peacefully or you can be a pain in the ass. But I'm warning ya, you mess around and I'll put the cuffs on you. You talk dirty, I gag ya, if you run, I'll shoot you. My name is Shockley, and we've got a plane to catch. Let's go.

  • Constable: [in the car, he's driving, Ben's in front, she's in the back seat, with him leering at her in the mirror] You mind if I ask you a question? How many times a month you spread your legs?

    Ben Shockley: Just drive the car, will you?

    Constable: See now, I got me a chance to learn something, colonel. I mean, as long as I got to chaffeur the little strumpet, you don't mind if a country boy picks up a little education, do you?

    [smirks]

    Constable: I... I got this here buddy, he had the idea one time to open up a string of whorehouses and advertise like them fried chicken places. "Finger lickin' good!"

    [snorting laugh]

    Constable: How's it work with your kind? You go to some kind of special school or something?

    Gus Mally: [coolly] I have a B.A. from Finch College.

    Constable: That where you learned to give head?

    Ben Shockley: Will you shut up, for Chrissake?

    Constable: Hey now, colonel, you come to the strumpet's rescue? I bet you had some ideas of getting some gash yourself. Maybe you already had a taste of it, huh? Ain't nothing like a slice of the damp, is there?

    Ben Shockley: Jesus.

    Constable: You can't fool ol' Deke, I seen you zipping your fly-...

    Ben Shockley: [pointing the gun at him menacingly] Will you shut up!

    Gus Mally: [calmly] It's all right, let him talk.

    Constable: Were you going to shoot a fellow officer, colonel? What'll you tell them back home? That I was insulting your whore?

    [Ben grimaces]

    Constable: Gmmph!

    [to Gus]

    Constable: Looks like you done lost your hero-boy.

    Gus Mally: [coolly] I can take care of myself.

    Constable: I bet you can at that. Let's just me and you have a little talk, huh? Did you ever go down on another little girl? Ever have it done to you? I mean, whores just don't make it with guys. They'll make it with anybody with the cash, right? Bet you do. Bet I'd like to watch you too. Yes, ma'am. I'd really dig watching you. Them little ol' melons all pink and tight. That little ass a-humping and a-jerking around.

    [Ben looks at him askew]

    Constable: Them long legs all jacked up juicy-like. I'll bet it don't take much to get you all wet and hot to trot, does it?

    [smirks]

    Constable: Hey, come on, talk to me, I wanna know what it's like being a whore.

    Gus Mally: Actually, I always thought it was rather like being a cop.

    Constable: You did?

    [dirty laugh]

    Gus Mally: Yeah. Not unlike being on the take at two dozen bars in downtown Vegas. Taking money from some politician every time you peel his drunken kid's Cadillac off a telephone pole.

    [toying with a cigarette]

    Gus Mally: Strong-arming the Chicanos in the barrio on Saturday night. Busting kids for smoking grass then taking a kickback from the heroin dealers. Or those occasions where you do bust a pusher and skim the haul when you've made the collar. Sell what you skim to your dope addict buddies on the force.

    Constable: [laughs] She's sure on to all our tricks, ain't she?

    Gus Mally: As I see it, the only difference between you and me is that when I quit work, I take a long hot bath and I'm as clean as the day I was born. But a cop, especially a flunkie like you, when the sheriff whistles, you squat. And what he does to you rots your brain. No amount of water on earth can get you clean again.

    Constable: [to Ben] You're going to sit there and take that kinda crap?

    Ben Shockley: [vague grin] You were the one who wanted her to talk.

    Gus Mally: I know you don't like women like me. We're a bit aggressive. We frighten you. But that's only because you got filth in your brain. And I'm afraid the only way you'll clean it out is to put a bullet through it.

    [leaning over towards him]

    Gus Mally: And does your wife know you masturbate?

    [causes him to yell in dismay and lose control of the car, almost smashing into a truck]

    Ben Shockley: [holding the gun against the driver's head] You've had your chat!

    [fed up with him]

    Ben Shockley: Now drive!

    [Ben and Gus look at each other in a new light, sharing bonding looks]

The Gauntlet

Director: Clint Eastwood

Language: English Release date: December 21, 1977

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