Two Mules for Sister Sara - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[albert]

The cast was headquartered at a magnificent hotel in Cocoyoc for the length of production. Susan Saint James was one visitor to the set. Another Clint girlfriend was reportedly flown in from the Bahamas. Buddies say that Eastwood also entertained at least one lady journalist amongst the members of the press flown in to tout the forthcoming movie.

[michele]

During a Q&A at the TCM Film Fest in 2015, Shirley MacLaine had this to say about Clint Eastwood, "Quite brilliant, and funny, because he's so laconic and doesn't know it. I adore him. I remember when we were doing Two Mules for Sister Sara, his horse was acting up. This is when I knew he's a true Republican. He got off the horse, looked at the horse, and socked him."

[ken]

Shirley MacLaine wrote that since this was filmed in Mexico, it took substantial time to send the film to California for processing and return it for dailies. When MacLaine finally saw the dailies, she was appalled at how overstated her false eyelashes looked, as she was playing a hooker posing as a nun. She regretted that she could not remove them for the rest of the filming because the footage would not match.

[bernice]

Shirley MacLaine did not get along during the shoot with Director Don Siegel, with whom she openly fought.

[ava]

Director Don Siegel said Producer Marty Rackin wanted to save every dollar on the shooting of this movie, and they disagreed on many points. According to Siegel, Rackin used totally unknown and cheap Mexican actors instead of well-known supporting American ones.

[carl]

Budd Boetticher originally wrote this with Lee Marvin as the lead.

[liam]

This movie's title is actually a pun. Sara's initial transportation is a mule, that becomes lame, and she trades it for a younger and smaller donkey, which is not technically a mule. So, the second "mule" of the title may be Hogan, who Sara says "You're as stubborn as my mule." Later, she calls Hogan, "Mr. Mule".

[elmer]

The Finnish title of this movie is "Kourallinen dynamiittia", which translates into English as "Fistful of Dynamite". This is actually the alternative English title of "Dollar" trilogy Director Sergio Leone's movie, Duck, You Sucker (1971).

[sara]

Don Siegel said in his biography that Shirley MacLaine's skin did not fit with the sun, so the production crew hired a female Mexican assistant to stay close to MacLaine during the whole outdoor sequences.

[beth]

New York Magazine critic Gael Greene had a tryst with Clint Eastwood on the set of this movie when she was sent to interview him.

[camila]

While in Austria filming Where Eagles Dare (1968), Clint Eastwood was approached with the script by Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton's wife at the time, with the notion of starring together in this movie. However, Universal Pictures was unwilling to pay Taylor's high salary.

[janice]

Shirley MacLaine gets top billing in this movie's credits (opening and closing). This was the last time Clint Eastwood received second billing (or anything less than first) until A Perfect World (1993), and the only time his leading lady was played by an A-list star until The Bridges of Madison County (1995).

[kylie]

Hogan (Clint Eastwood) has on the same gun belt and holster that Eastwood as "The Man with No Name" wore in the "Dollars" trilogy (the three Spaghetti Western movies directed by Sergio Leone).

[fred]

It is rather conspicuous that in her many volumes of memoirs, Shirley MacLaine says virtually nothing about co-starring with Clint Eastwood. When Shirley discussed her career in a two-part interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) in 2011, Clint's name did not come up once.

[nicholas]

The name of the saloon translates to "The Black Cat".