The Gauntlet (film)

The Gauntlet is a 1977 American action film directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Eastwood and Sondra Locke. The films supporting cast includes Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, and Mara Corday. Eastwood plays a downandout cop who falls in love with a prostitute Locke whom he is assigned to escort from Las Vegas to Phoenix in order for her to testify against the mob.

Her suspicions are confirmed when the transport vehicle is bombed and Mallys house is fired upon. Shockley and Mally are then pursued across the open country with no official assistance and with the police force regarding them as fugitives. They kidnap a local Constable, who they then let go, as Mally knows therell be another hit. The Constable dies at the hands of several men armed with machine guns. They eventually run into a gang of bikers whom Shockley threatens with his gun sending them on their way, confiscates one of their modified HarleyDavidson motorcycles and takes off on it with Mally.It is revealed that Shockleys boss, Commissioner Blakelock, wants both of them dead, because Mally knows about Blakelocks secret life. Assistant District Attorney Feyderspiel is involved with the plot to kill Shockley and Mally. Both of them are also blamed for the death of the Constable. ........

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