Metrograph

Two giants of the Western film, Siegel and Budd Boetticher, who contributed Two Mules for Sister Sara’s original story, take us to war-torn Mexico in the final years of Emperor Maximilian’s puppet reign, where Clint Eastwood’s lone-wolf mercenary finds himself in the odd-couple company of Shirley MacLaine’s eponymous vestal, a nun raising funds for the revolutionary forces fighting to oust the Frenchies. Featuring a sizzling score by Ennio Morricone, the maestro behind Eastwood and Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy,” expressive Panavision cinematography by incomparable Mexican DP Gabriel Figueroa, step-by-step instructions in the field surgery removal of a Kiowa arrow, and a shoot-the-works Bastille Day climax that’s worth the price of admission alone.

Distributor: Universal