Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A nun, a bandit, and a mule walk into a bar… That’s the setup for Two Mules For Sister Sara, which has Hogan (Clint Eastwood) rescuing nearly naked damsel in distress Sara (Shirley Maclaine) from outlaws intending to rape and torture her in the middle of nowhere in the Mexican desert. Upon her rescue, Sara puts on a nun’s habit and explains that she’s a nun supporting a church outside a French outpost (set during 1860 when France occupied Mexico). Hogan presses her for details, and then explains that he has accepted a bounty to raid that same outpost and claim the treasury France is using to finance the occupation. Sara too is no friend of the French, she’s wanted for helping the Mexican resistance. The unlikely duo team up and the results are literally dynamite, both in the chemistry between them as this turns into a buddy movie with Hogan’s romantic interest in Sara stymied by her vows, and real dynamite used in two great set pieces: First...
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