Malpaso Productions

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Malpaso Productions, originally called The Malpaso Company, is Clint Eastwood's production company.

The name Malpaso is derived from a creek south of Carmel, in California, where Eastwood has spent much of his life. The name "Malpaso" is Spanish for "bad step" or "misstep." When Eastwood agreed to take the role of the Man with No Name, his agent told him that it would be "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]

Contents 1 Partial filmography (as The Malpaso Company) 2 Partial filmography (as Malpaso Productions) 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Partial filmography (as The Malpaso Company)

• Hang 'Em High (1968)
• Play Misty for Me (1971)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Magnum Force (1973)
• Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
• Firefox (1982)
• Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

[edit] Partial filmography (as Malpaso Productions)

• The Gauntlet (1977)
• The Dead Pool (1988)
• White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
• The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
• Mystic River (2003)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

[edit] References

1. ^ Clint Eastwood. The Biography Channel. Retrieved on June 11, 2008.
2. ^ Edward Buscombe (1999). The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford University Press, 472-473. 

[edit] External links

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