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Malpaso Productions
Company typePrivate
IndustryFilm
FounderIrving Leonard, Clint Eastwood
HeadquartersUnited States
Key people
Clint Eastwood
Robert Lorenz
David Valdes
Fritz Manes
Robert Daley
ProductsMotion pictures
ServicesFilm production

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.

History

The name Malpaso is derived from a creek 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

Malpaso Productions

References

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

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