Into battle with Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (above), as Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway, drags a platoon member through a training obstacle course in “Heartbreak Ridge,” which will start at the Avon tomorrow.
Sergeant Highway is a complex character who leads his marine platoon in the United States’ invasion of Grenada. For Eastwood, who has always demonstrated a willtagness to take chaffies in his - roles, Highway represents a
multi-dimensional personality merging from an extremely narrow focus. Highway is a soldier without a war, a man whose values are based on combat readiness and the psychological attitudes that support it. Eastwood's character demonstrates his professional skill in “Heartbreak Ridge,” but he also shows an evolving, less mechanised awareness which will help him survive and proceed with his Iffle away from thfe battlefield.
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Press, 18 December 1986, Page 14
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