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Clint Eastwood and Pat Hingle were friends and had a long and successful working relationship. They first worked together on the 1971 film Dirty Harry, in which Hingle played a police captain. They went on to collaborate on several more films, including Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool. Hingle also appeared in several of Eastwood's television films, including Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter.