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Two Mules for Sister Sara is a 1970 American-Mexican Western film in Panavision directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine (billed above Clint Eastwood in the film's credits, but not on the poster) set during the French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867). The film was to have been the first in a five-year exclusive association between Universal Pictures and Sanen Productions of Mexico.[4] It was the second of five collaborations between Siegel and Eastwood, following Coogan's Bluff (1968). The collaboration continued with The Beguiled and Dirty Harry (both 1971) and finally Escape from Alcatraz (1979). The plot follows an American mercenary who gets mixed up with a nun and aids a group of Juarista rebels during the puppet reign of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.[5][6] The film featured both American and Mexican actors and actresses, including being filmed in the picturesque countryside near Tlayacapan, Morelos. Ennio Morricone composed the film's music. Plot Just after the American Civil War, a former soldier named Hogan (Clint Eastwood) rides up on a naked woman about to be raped by bandits. He kills the bandits and discovers the woman is a nun, Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine), who is raising money to assist Mexican revolutionaries fighting French occupying forces. When Sara requests that Hogan take her to the Mexican camp he agrees, as he had previously arranged to help the revolutionaries attack the French garrison, in exchange for half the garrison's treasury. As the duo heads towards the camp, evading French troops all the while, Hogan is surprised that the nun swears and drinks whiskey. Cast Clint Eastwood as Hogan Shirley MacLaine as Sara Manolo Fábregas as Col. Beltrán Alberto Morin as Gen. LeClaire Armando Silvestre as 1st American John Kelly as 2nd American Enrique Lucero as 3rd American David Estuardo as Juan Ada Carrasco as Juan's mother Pancho Córdova as Juan's father José Chávez as Horacio José Ángel Espinosa as French Officer Rosa Furman as Sara's friend Directed by Don Siegel Screenplay by Albert Maltz Story by Budd Boetticher Produced by Martin Rackin Carroll Case Starring Clint Eastwood Shirley MacLaine Cinematography Gabriel Figueroa Edited by Robert F. Shugrue Juan José Marino Mexico Music by Ennio Morricone Color process Technicolor Production companies The Malpaso Company Sanen Productions Distributed by Universal Pictures Release dates May 28, 1970 (Dallas) August 13, 1970 (Mexico) Running time 114 minutes Countries United States Mexico Language English
