Gran Torino (Full Version, Clint Eastwood and Jamie Cullum)
This song, "Gran Torino", is the title track from the movie of the same name. Released in 2008, the movie stars Clint Eastwood and a 1972 Gran Torino. (Just kidding) His true co-star was a previously-unknown actor named Bee Vang who played the character of Thao, who undergoes a personal transformation under Walt Kowalski's (Eastwood's) tutelage.
The song here is composed of two parts, first being Clint Eastwood's rendition (the credits say he's "singing as Walt Kowalski") and includes a few images of his infancy and early youth and it ends at the image of his high school graduation photo. It segues into the Jamie Cullum version. The composition is credited to Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood, and Michael Stevens. The Cullum version is listed in the movie credits and includes Don Runner in this song. The images that accompany it are from these movies and/or television shows, in the following order:
1955, Revenge of the Creature
1955, Francis in the Navy
1955, Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955, Tarantula
1956, The First Traveling Saleslady
1958, Ambush at Cimarron Pass
1959, Maverick (television show)
1964, A Fistful Of Dollars
1957, Rawhide (television show, 1959-1965)
1965, For A Few Dollars More
1966, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1968, Hang 'Em High
1968, Coogan's Bluff
1969, Paint Your Wagon
1970, Two Mules For Sister Sara
1971, Play Misty For Me
1971, Dirty Harry
1973, High Plains Drifter
1973, Magnum Force
1975, The Eiger Sanction
1976, The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976, The Enforcer
1978, Every Which Way But Loose
1979, Escape From Alcatraz
1980, Bronco Billy
1980, Any Which Way You Can
1982, Honkytonk Man
1983, Sudden Impact
1985, Pale Rider
1988, The Dead Pool
1989, Pink Cadillac
1992, Unforgiven
1993, In The Line Of Fire
1995, The Bridges Of Madison county
1999, True Crime
2000, Space Cowboys
2002, Blood Work
2004, Million Dollar Baby
2008, Gran Torino
Clint Eastwood -- Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, and Singer. No other can do all that he has done during his career - SUCCESSFULLY. I do not own the rights to anything here, just great respect for the man and his amazing body of work. Looking forward to more in the years to come.
Edited to add on 8/31/2012: Never thought I'd see the day when Clint would jump the shark. I don't ordinarily editorialize or criticize or even comment other than to give praise to artists I admire. Politics and art make strange bedfellows. None stranger than Clint Eastwood and the Republican National Convention. I had deep respect for his craft and his personal views on issues I support. Now, overnight he's become a caricature. I still like his movies and his talents were -- and still are -- unsurpassed. I hope he can live down his "empty chair" bit and live his days in peace from now on. His story is now a "Stranger Than Fiction" tale that will live in infamy.