Malpaso Productions, originally known as the Malpaso Company, is Clint Eastwood's production company. It was established in 1967 by Eastwood's financial adviser Irving Leonard for the film Hang 'Em High, using profits from the Dollars Trilogy. Leonard served as President of the Malpaso Company until his death on December 13, 1969.
The name is derived from Malpaso Creek (Spanish for "bad step", or "bad crossing"), located south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where Eastwood has spent much of his life. The creek has very steep side slopes and had only one crossing (a ford only 10 feet above sea level) until 1935, when a concrete bridge was constructed for State Highway 1. When Eastwood agreed to take the role of the Man with No Name, his agent told him that it would be a "bad step" for his career. After the Dollars Trilogy made it big and Eastwood decided to run his own production company, he thought "Malpaso" would be an appropriately ironic choice.
Eastwood is known for very tight shooting schedules, finishing his movies on schedule and on budget, or earlier and under budget, typically in much less time than most production companies.
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Coogan's Bluff (1968)
Paint Your Wagon (Top Production Billing went to Alan Jay Lerner Productions) (1969)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
The Beguiled (1971)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Joe Kidd (1972)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Breezy (1973)
Magnum Force (1973)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Enforcer (1976)
The Gauntlet (1977)
Every Which Way but Loose (1978)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Firefox (1982)
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Sudden Impact (1983)
Tightrope (1984)
City Heat (1984)
Pale Rider (1985)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Ratboy (1986)
Bird (1988)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Pink Cadillac (1989)
White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
The Rookie (1990)
Unforgiven (1992)
A Perfect World (1993)
The Bridges of Madison County (1995 with Amblin Entertainment)
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1997)
Absolute Power (1997)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
True Crime (1999, with The Zanuck Company)
Space Cowboys (2000, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures)
Blood Work (2002)
Mystic River (2003, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures)
Million Dollar Baby (2004, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006, with Warner Bros. Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, with Warner Bros. Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)
Rails & Ties (2007)
Changeling (2008, with Universal Pictures, Relativity Media and Imagine Entertainment)
Gran Torino (2008, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures)
Invictus (2009, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment)
Hereafter (2010, with Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company)
J. Edgar (2011, with Warner Bros. Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Wintergreen Productions)
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Jersey Boys (2014, with Warner Bros. Pictures, GK Films and RatPac Entertainment)
American Sniper (2014, with Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and RatPac Entertainment)
Sully (2016), with Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, RatPac Entertainment, BBC Films, FilmNation Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company)
