Malpaso Productions

Malpaso Productions

Type	Private
Industry	Film
Founder(s)	Irving Leonard, Clint Eastwood
Headquarters	Burbank, California United States
Key people	Clint Eastwood Robert Lorenz David Valdes Fritz Manes Robert Daley
Products	Motion pictures
Services	Film production

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Malpaso Productions, originally known as The Malpaso Company, is Clint Eastwood's production company. It was established in 1967 by Eastwood's financial adviser Irving Leonard for the film Hang 'Em High, using finances from the Dollars trilogy. Leonard had served as President of the Malpaso Company until his death in December 1969.

History

The name is derived from Malpaso Creek, located south of Carmel, California, where Eastwood has spent much of his life. The name "Malpaso" is Spanish for "bad pass" or "bad step." When Eastwood agreed to take the role of the Man with No Name, his agent told him that it would be a "bad step" for his career. After the Dollars Trilogy made it big and Eastwood decided to run his own production company, he thought "Malpaso" would be an appropriately ironic choice.^[1]

The company is known for being efficiently run, with movies being filmed in much less time than most production companies.^[2]

Filmography

The Malpaso Company

• Hang 'Em High (1968)
• Coogan's Bluff (1968)
• Paint Your Wagon (1969)
• Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
• The Beguiled (1971)
• Play Misty for Me (1971)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Joe Kidd (1972)
• High Plains Drifter (1973)
• Breezy (1973)
• Magnum Force (1973)
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
• The Eiger Sanction (1975)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
• The Enforcer (1976)
• Every Which Way but Loose (1978)
• Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
• Any Which Way You Can (1980)
• Firefox (1982)
• Honkytonk Man (1982)
• Sudden Impact (1983)
• Tightrope (1984)
• City Heat (1984)
• Pale Rider (1985)
• Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
• Ratboy (1986)
• Bird (1988)

Malpaso Productions

• The Gauntlet (1977)
• The Dead Pool (1988)
• Pink Cadillac (1989)
• White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
• The Rookie (1990)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• A Perfect World (1993)
• The Bridges of Madison County (1995 with Amblin Entertainment)
• The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1997)
• Absolute Power (1997)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
• True Crime (1999, with The Zanuck Company)
• Space Cowboys (2000, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures)
• Blood Work (2002)
• Mystic River (2003, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment)
• Flags of Our Fathers (2006, Warner Bros. Pictures with DreamWorks Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, with Warner Bros. Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)
• Rails & Ties (2007)
• Changeling (2008, with Universal Pictures, Relativity Media and Imagine Entertainment)
• Gran Torino (2008, with Warner Bros. Pictures]] and Village Roadshow Pictures)
• Invictus (2009, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment)
• Hereafter (2010, with Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company
• J. Edgar (2011) (with Warner Bros. Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Wintergreen Productions}

References

1. ^ "Clint Eastwood". The Biography Channel. http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/53:172/2/Clint_Eastwood.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2008. 
2. ^ Edward Buscombe (1999). The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford University Press. pp. 472–473. 

External links

• Malpaso Productions at the Internet Movie Database
• Malpaso Company at the Internet Movie Database