| Two Mules for Sister Sara | |
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 US film poster | |
| Directed by | Don Siegel |
| Screenplay by | Albert Maltz |
| Story by | Budd Boetticher |
| Produced by | Martin Rackin Carroll Case |
| Starring | Shirley MacLaine Clint Eastwood |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Edited by | Robert F. Shugrue Juan José Marino |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production companies | The Malpaso Company Sanen Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Countries | United States Mexico |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.5 million[1][2] |
| Box office | $4.7 million (rentals)[3] |
Two Mules for Sister Sara is a 1970 American-Mexican Western film in Panavision directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood[4] set during the French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867). The film was to have been the first in a five-year exclusive association between Universal Pictures and Sanen Productions of Mexico.[5] It was the second of five collaborations between Siegel and Eastwood, following Coogan's Bluff (1968). The collaboration continued with The Beguiled and Dirty Harry (both 1971) and finally Escape from Alcatraz (1979).
The plot follows an American mercenary who gets mixed up with a nun and aids a group of Juarista rebels during the puppet reign of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.[6][7] The film featured both American and Mexican actors and actresses, including being filmed in the picturesque countryside near Tlayacapan, Morelos. Ennio Morricone composed the film's music. Two Mules for Sister Sara was a moderate financial success and received a warm critical reception.
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p. 183
- ^ Hughes, p. 21
- ^ Eliot (2009), p. 117-118
- ^ MacLaine was billed above Clint Eastwood in the film's credits, but not on the poster.
- ^ Issuu – You Publish
- ^ Frayling (1992), p. 7
- ^ Smith (1993), p. 76