The+gauntlet+1977+internet+archive Jun 2026

In The Gauntlet , Eastwood plays Ben Shockley, a hard-drinking, "average" Phoenix police officer who is tasked with a seemingly routine job: escorting a witness from Las Vegas to Phoenix for a mob trial. However, the witness, Gus Mally (played by ), is a defiant prostitute who informs him that the "bet" in Vegas is that they won't make it out of town alive.

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