You cannot talk about The Gauntlet without discussing its final twenty minutes. Trapped in an armored commercial bus custom-fitted with steel plating, Shockley and Mally drive straight down the main street of Phoenix toward City Hall. Waiting for them is a literal gauntlet of hundreds of police officers armed with shotguns, rifles, and pistols.
Ben Shockley (Clint Eastwood) is a mediocre Phoenix cop who has never handled anything bigger than a drunk and disorderly. When his superior assigns him to “transport a witness from Las Vegas to Phoenix to testify against the mob,” Shockley assumes it’s a joke. The witness: a sharp-tongued prostitute named Augustina “Gus” Mally (Sondra Locke). The catch: every cop, bounty hunter, and hitman between the two cities has been paid to make sure neither arrives alive. The Gauntlet - Clint Eastwood 1977 Eng Subs 720...
Here is an in-depth exploration of why The Gauntlet remains a must-watch masterpiece of 1970s action cinema. A Subversion of the Dirty Harry Persona You cannot talk about The Gauntlet without discussing