Clint Eastwood locations. With a production cost of $20 million, it was Eastwood's highest budget film to date. "People" magazine likened Eastwood's performance to "Luke Skywalker trapped in Dirty Harry's Soul". Eastwood directed and starred in the fourth "Dirty Harry" film, "Sudden Impact", which was shot in the spring and summer of 1983 and is considered the darkest and most violent of the series. By this time Eastwood received 60 percent of all profits from films he starred in and directed, with the rest going to the studio. "Sudden Impact" was his final on-screen collaboration with Locke. She plays an artist who,
Clint Eastwood in the 1970s to the extent that Clint himself believed it was Oscar worthy. Many critics widely believed that he was overshadowed by Jeff Bridges who stole the show in his performance as Lightfoot, and when he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Eastwood was reportedly fuming at his own lack of Academy Award recognition. Despite critical acclaim, the film was only a modest success at the box office, earning $32.4 million. Eastwood was unhappy with the way that United Artists had produced the film and swore "he would never work for United Artists again", and the scheduled two-film