Clint Eastwood Region 1 DVD collections 2003

Clint Eastwood Region 1 DVD collections 2003

Here’s a rare full page advertisement I thought I’d pull out and scan - as it’s 20 years old already! The 4 sets were released by Warner Home Video and broken down into themes under the titles of Cop (featuring Dirty Harry, Magnum Force and Tightrope), Adventurer (featuring Firefox, Space Cowboys and White Hunter, Black Heart), Westerner (featuring The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider and Unforgiven) and Hero (featuring Absolute Power, Heartbreak Ridge and A Perfect World). 12 good movies in total, but of course a bit of a mixed and far from complete bag. Of course, these have been superseded since with much larger collections, and on blu-ray formats. But these have become fairly collectable over the passing years and still seem to demand quite high prices. Like most fans, many have upgraded their collections over the years to the blu-ray format, but I couldn’t part with the DVDs - as they form such an important part of the history of Eastwood on home entertainment - they still hold a special memory. The individually packed films (something that is becoming a rarity in similar bulk collectives these days) came in the ‘snapper’ case designs which were made of card and opened out usually to reveal a chapter section to the left with an image. The UK also released similar versions, an example of the UK Dirty Harry DVD release is shown below, and all of the titles came with the same generic tan designed packaging to form some form of unity. Other missing titles, including The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, City Heat, Kelly’s Heroes, Every which way but loose, Any which way you can, Bronco Billy (which would have made a perfect triple set), Honkytonk man, and The Rookie for example were also all released with the same generic packaging design.  

Below: A typical example showing the inside design of the snapper case DVD

Below: The Four sets of 2003 DVDs