Clint Eastwood plays a hard-hitting drifter who rides into town and single-handedly rescues a local nun (Shirley MacLaine) from a gang of attackers in Two Mules for Sister Sara. After meeting a band of Mexican revolutionaries bent on resisting the French occupation of Mexico, the cowboy and Sister Sara decide to join forces with the freedom fighters and set off on a deadly mission to capture the enemy's garrison. Ending with a violent climax, this action-packed western classic cemented Eastwood's status as a true cinematic superstar.