Two Mules for Sister Sara
Two Mules for Sister Sara is an AmericanMexican western film starring Shirley MacLaine billed above Clint Eastwood in the films credits, but not on the poster set during the French intervention in Mexico. The film was released in 1970 and directed by Don Siegel. It was to have been the first in a fiveyear exclusive association between Universal Pictures and Sanen Productions of Mexico. The film marked the second of five collaborations between Siegel and Eastwood, following Coogans Bluff 1968. The collaboration continued with The Beguiled and Dirty Harry both 1971 and finally Escape From Alcatraz 1979.
A drifter named Hogan spots and saves a naked woman from being gangraped by several bandits whom he shoots and kills. He later learns that the woman, Sara, is a nun working with a group of Mexican revolutionaries who are fighting the French. When Sara requests that Hogan take her to a Mexican camp, he agrees because he had previously arranged to help the Mexican revolutionaries attack the French garrison in exchange for a portion of the garrisons strongbox if they are successful.As the duo heads toward the camp, Hogan is surprised that the nun smokes his cigars and drinks his whiskey. When he attempts to detonate a charge to destroy a French ammunition train, he is shot with an arrow in the shoulder. Sara is able to bandage him, but he is still unable to shoot the charge to disable the train. Sara assists him in angling his rifle, and the two are able to destroy the train together. Eventually the two reach Juarista commander Col. Beltrans camp and Sara reveals the layout of the French garrison. She then reveals to Hogan that she is not a nun but a prostitute posing as a nun, and the two team up, infiltrate the fortress and open the gates for the Mexican revolutionary forces to swarm through. ........
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