Release: 3 Classic Eastwood Films Coming to 4K UHD in April 2025

Burbank, Calif., March 5, 2025—Three films from legendary filmmaker Clint Eastwood— “Dirty Harry,” “The Outlaw Josie Wales,” and “Pale Rider” (40^thanniversary), are releasing for the first time on 4K Ultra HD and Digital on April 29, 2025.

2021 marked Eastwood’s 50-year partnership with Warner Bros., which began in 1971 with the release of “Dirty Harry.” Over the course of his remarkable career, Eastwood has received a number of lifetime and career achievement honors. He is a a 4-time Academy Award winner. His honors include the Motion Picture Academy’s Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Eastwood has also garnered tributes from the Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Film Institute, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the French Film Society, the National Board of Review, and the Henry Mancini Institute. He is also the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, the California Governor’s Award for the Arts, and France’s Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur.

‘Dirty Harry’ (1971)

Eastwood stars as no-holds-barred San Francisco cop ‘Dirty Harry Callahan’ in this thriller that began an action franchise. When detective Harry Callahan is assigned to pay extortion money to a serial murderer, the payoff goes wrong. Now with the life of a 14-year-old girl at stake, Callahan refuses to allow anything—including the law—to keep him from stopping the killer.

The film is directed by Don Siegel. The screenplay is by Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, and Dean Riesner from a story by Harry Julian Fink and R.M. Fink. The film is produced by Don Siegel. “Dirty Harry” stars Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, and John Vernon.

“Dirty Harry” was selected in 2008 by Empire as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. The film was ranked No. 41 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years …100 Thrills, a list of America’s most heart-pounding movies. Additionally, Harry Callahan was selected the 17th greatest movie hero on 100 Years …100 Heroes & Villains. The movie’s famous quote “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” was ranked 51st on 100 Years … 100 Movie Quotes.

In February 2025, the 4K remaster of the film premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival as part of the ‘Berlinale Classics’ program which showcases digitally restored film classics.

“Dirty Harry” 4K UHD contains the following new and previously released special features:  

‘The Outlaw Josie Wales’ (1976)

Clint Eastwood stars in and directs this fast-paced Western about the fight for vengeance by a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered in the last days of the United States’ Civil War.

Clint Eastwood directs the film. The screenplay is by Phil Kaufman and Sonia Chernus. It is based on the novel “Gone to Texas” by Forrest Carter. The film is produced by Robert Daly. “The Outlaw Josie Wales” stars Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, and John Vernon.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for ‘Best Original Music Score.’ In 1996, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

“The Outlaw Josie Wales” 4K UHD contains the following new and previously released special features:

With 1985’s “Pale Rider,” Clint Eastwood returned to the Western genre with a vengeance. The movie became the highest grossing Western of that decade. Eastwood, who also directed the hit film, plays a nameless stranger who rides into a small California gold rush town (and becomes known as the “Preacher”). He finds himself in the middle of a feud between a mining syndicate and a group of independent prospectors.

The film is produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack. The film stars Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny, Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath, and John Russell.

“Pale Rider” 4K UHD contains the following new and previously released special features:

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About Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood has been honored for his work as a filmmaker and actor. His 40th film as a director—the suspense thriller “Juror #2″—hit the Box Office in November 2024.

Eastwood directed and produced the searing real-life drama, “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper. The highest-grossing film of 2014, “American Sniper” was also one of the most acclaimed, receiving six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The film also brought Eastwood his fourth Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award nomination and a National Board of Review Award for Best Director.

A four-time Oscar winner, Eastwood won his first Oscars, for ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Picture,’ for his 1992 Western “Unforgiven,” which received a total of nine nominations, including one for Eastwood for ‘Best Actor.’  Eastwood also won Golden Globe and DGA Awards for the film, which garnered Best Picture honors from several critics’ groups.

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In 2005, Eastwood won two more Oscars in the same categories for “Million Dollar Baby,” again earning a ‘Best Actor’ nomination for his performance in the film. He also won his second DGA Award and another ‘Best Director Golden Globe,’ as well as a Golden Globe nomination for the film’s score.

Eastwood has twice more earned dual Oscar nominations, in the categories of Best Director and Best Picture, for the dramatic thriller “Mystic River,” for which he also garnered Golden Globe and DGA Award nominations, and the World War II drama “Letters from Iwo Jima,” which won Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Awards for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ and received ‘Best Picture Awards’ from a number of film critics groups. “Letters from Iwo Jima” was the companion film to Eastwood’s widely praised drama “Flags of Our Fathers.”

In 2008, Eastwood’s “Changeling” received three Oscar nominations and Eastwood received BAFTA Award and London Film Critics Award nominations for Best Director, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for ‘Best Original Score.’ The film was also nominated for a Palme d’Or and won a Special Award when it premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.  He had received three previous Palme d’Or nominations: for “White Hunter Black Heart,” in 1990; “Bird,” at the 1988 festival; and “Pale Rider,” in 1985.  He also won his first Best Director Golden Globe Award for “Bird.”

‘Richard Jewell’ and ‘Juror #2’

In more recent years, Eastwood directed, produced and starred in “The Mule” and “Cry Macho” and directed and produced “Richard Jewell,” “The 15:17 to Paris,” “Sully,” starring Tom Hanks, and the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical “Jersey Boys,” about the start of the 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.  He also directed and produced the biographical drama “J. Edgar”; “Hereafter,” which received Italy’s David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film; and the drama “Invictus,” for which he won a National Board of Review Award and earned Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award nominations for Best Director. In addition, Eastwood directed, starred in, and produced “Gran Torino,” for which he won a ‘Best Actor Award’ from the National Board of Review.

Eastwood also directed and starred in such memorable films as “Blood Work,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime,” “Absolute Power,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “The Rookie,” “Heartbreak Ridge,” “Sudden Impact,” “Honkytonk Man,” “Firefox,” “Bronco Billy,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” “The Eiger Sanction,” “High Plains Drifter,” and “Play Misty for Me,” which marked his directorial debut.

4k Films Releasing 4/29

Eastwood first came to worldwide fame as an actor in such legendary Westerns as “A Fistful of Dollars,” “For a Few Dollars More,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “Hang ‘Em High,” and “Two Mules for Sister Sara.” His film acting work also includes “Kelly’s Heroes,” “Escape from Alcatraz,” the “Dirty Harry” actioners, “Every Which Way But Loose,” “Any Which Way You Can,” “In the Line of Fire” and “Trouble with the Curve.”

Over the course of his remarkable career, Eastwood has received a number of lifetime and career achievement honors. These include the Motion Picture Academy’s Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award.  He has also garnered tributes from the Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Film Institute, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the French Film Society, the National Board of Review, and the Henry Mancini Institute.  He is also the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, the California Governor’s Award for the Arts, and France’s Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur.