Clint Eastwood

[Loza]

I love these couple of photos from 1967

 

[mbenne]

Was this from his 1967 UK visit to promote his film Fist Full of Dollars? I saw the film but two years later around 1969 at the Warwick Road Cinema Olton.

 

[Loza]

Yes, he was stopping at the Albany Hotel on Smallbrook Queensway. I think that's his wife at the time.

 

[charliewag]

Photo at the Albany with his wife.

 

[Elmdon Boy]

Wow, didn't even know that Clint had been to Brum. Cool dude.
Where did he appear around Brum promoting A Fist Full of Dollars?

 

[Barr_Beacon]

Here's some background information to Clint's Birmingham / UK visit.

https://theclinteastwoodarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/eastwoods-uk-trip-of-june-1967.html

 

[Loza]

Here's some background information to Clint's Birmingham / UK visit.

https://theclinteastwoodarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/eastwoods-uk-trip-of-june-1967.html

Great, brilliant John Humphreys interview. I wonder if Clint knew that most of the weapons used in the American civil war were made in Birmingham.

 

[A Sparks]

The local Brummie males are enjoying the girls!

 

[Elmdon Boy]

I think A Sparks if you look at the link provided by Barr-Beacon that the photo with the girls is taken at Heathrow Airport, not in Brum

 

[Barr_Beacon]

I was afraid this might happen! Clint has just texted me tell you both to "Chuck it!"

He picked up the phrase when he nipped out of The Albany to visit The Crown over the road to order something from The Cockle Man to go with his Manhattan.
His view of Birmingham however was tarnished when he was told to "go back up his own end", which has an entirely different meaning in Los Angeles.

 

[Elmdon Boy]

I was just "feeling lucky" Barr_Beacon