Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6655 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-05-06
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 114 minutes

Amazon.com
In the cactus-studded Mexican backcountry of the 1860s, a surly drifter who could easily be mistaken for the Man with No Name becomes protector and lethal helpmate to a red-haired nun wanted by the French for aiding the Juarista revolutionaries. Essentially a two-character showcase for the newly stellar Clint Eastwood and what was beginning to seem the poststellar Shirley MacLaine (subbing for Elizabeth Taylor), this sardonic study in testy collaboration, mutual deception and distrust, and slightly creepy sexual attraction is highly rated by a fairly small number of critics--chiefly, one suspects, for the dual-auteur cachet of having been directed by Don Siegel and based on a story by Budd Boetticher. Others deem it an undersauced spaghetti Western and find that the stars grate on the viewer as well as each other. Cinematography by the great Gabriel Figueroa is some consolation, but... if only Boetticher had been allowed to direct. --Richard T. Jameson

Customer Reviews

TWo Mules for Sisiter Sara
This is a oldie goldie. Clint Eastwood as his usual cowboy self. Shirley MacLaine is a real treat as Sister Sara. It makes you laugh and we all need that!

wo mules for sister Sara
Movie is great, one of the best in the clint eastwood collection. the seller was fast on shipment and movie came great condition. i recomend this movie for any western fan and i recomend this seller also to buyers

Great Chemistry! Shabby Cover Design...
I thought the chemistry between Eastwood and Shirley Maclaine was perfect. How could it have been better? As a nun she was off-limits, though pretty and cute in her piousness (and on that mule!). Eastwood's slight frustration and overall amusement with her was great and they did make a good team. For her part, Maclaine was never over-the-top or cutesy and did a very convincing job of a nun (ahem) on the run. It was wonderful having a very prominent and 3-dimensional female part in a 'Sergio Leone' style western. As typical with the genre, the landscape cinematography was breathtaking and the soundtrack just as good! In my book, a movie both men and women could enjoy watching together for the most part - date movie? (ok, the ending is a bit shoot 'em up and somewhat long, but barring that..)

I like the cover picture of the zone 2 dvd a lot better as it expresses something of the movie's real content (and charm). What were they thinking with the zone 1 cover design? Doesn't capture much feeling between them and looks like Clint just ransacked a brothel!