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A trio of classic Clint Eastwood titles on 4K UHD in April

2 April 2025

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has announced the 4K UHD release of three films starring legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider, the second two of which Eastwood also directed. The three films will be released individually on UHD on 28 April, the full details of which are below.

 

Dirty Harry UHD pack shot

DIRTY HARRY (1971)

Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars as no-holds-barred San Francisco cop Dirty Harry Callahan a film that began an action-thriller 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.

Directed by Don Siegel, who also directed Eastwood in Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Beguiled (1971) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the film was written by Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, and Dean Riesner from a story by Harry Julian Fink and R.M. Fink. Also featuring in the film are Andy 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, and Harry Callahan was selected as 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 NEW AND PREVIOUSLY RELEASED SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Commentary by Richard Schickel – NEW
  • Generations and Dirty Harry – NEW
  • Lensing Justice: The Cinematography of Dirty Harry – NEW
  • American Masters Career Retrospective: Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
  • Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Fighting for Justice - NEW
  • Interview Gallery –
    • Patricia Clarkson
    • Joel Cox
    • Clint Eastwood
    • Hal Holbrook
    • Evan Kim
    • John Milius
    • Ted Post
    • Andy Robinson
    • Arnold Schwarzenegger
    • Robert Urich
  • Dirty Harry’s Way
  • Dirty Harry: The Original

4K ULTRA HD COLLECTOR'S EDITION ADDITIONAL FEATURES:

  • Film in 4K UHD and Blu-ray
  • SteelBook
  • Rigid slipcase
  • Double-sided A3 poster
  • Police file envelope
  • Suspect profile card
  • Ransom note card
  • 5x double-sided character cards
  • 4x double-sided behind-the-scenes cards

Dirty Harry will be released as a 4K Ultra HD, a 4K Ultra HD SteelBook on 28 April and as a 4K Ultra HD Collector's Edition on 19 May.

 

The Outlaw Josey Wales UHD pack shot

THE OUTLAW JOSEY 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. 

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

The Outlaw Josey Wales was nominated for the Academy Award for 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 JOSEY WALES 4K UHD NEW AND PREVIOUSLY RELEASED SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Commentary by Richard Schickel
  • An Outlaw and an Antihero – NEW
  • The Cinematography of an Outlaw: Crafting Josey Wales – NEW
  • Clint Eastwood’s West
  • Eastwood in Action
  • Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales
  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Reinventing Westerns – NEW

The Outlaw Josey Wales will be released as a 4K Ultra HD and as a 4K Ultra HD SteelBook on 28 April.

 

Pale Rider UHD pack shot

PALE RIDER (1985)

With 1985's Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood returned to the western genre with a vengeance as 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") where 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 NEW AND PREVIOUSLY RELEASED SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • The Diary of Sydney Penny: Lessons from the Set – NEW
  • Painting the Preacher: The Cinematography of Pale Rider – NEW
  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Reinventing Westerns – NEW
  • Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
  • The Eastwood Factor

Pale Rider will be released as a 4K Ultra HD and as a 4K Ultra HD SteelBook on 28 April.