Clint Eastwood was one of many greatest film stars on the earth in 1995, however, up till that time, he was not identified for showing in family-friendly movies. CBS’ “Rawhide,” the tv sequence that launched him within the Sixties, and 1982’s “Firefox,” with its online game tie-in, are most likely his two most kid-appropriate works. “Bronco Billy” and “Honkytonk Man” are additionally household movies in a manner, although, actually, Eastwood solely hit the bullseye with children when he plopped Clyde the orangutan into the bare-knuckle-brawling adventures of Philo Beddoe in “Each Which Means However Unfastened” and “Any Which Means You Can” (each of which don’t have any scarcity of gleefully raunchy moments).

Eastwood additionally wasn’t identified for his romantic dramas, so the summer time of 1995 promised to be an outlier for him together with his adaptation of Robert James Waller’s runaway bestseller “The Bridges of Madison County.” It was a directing-acting twofer for Eastwood, who forged himself as an growing older, but nonetheless hunky photographer reverse Meryl Streep’s unhappily married Iowan. All of this appeared terribly unlikely for the filmmaker, however the greatest Clint shock of that summer time wound up arriving every week earlier than the discharge of “The Bridges of Madison County” in a tentpole household flick that shared one component in widespread together with his rural romance.

The movie in query? Brad Silberling’s “Casper,” a supernatural romp that has discovered its manner into Prime Video’s high 10 within the U.S. within the days main as much as Halloween (through FlixPatrol). Evidently, you possibly can chalk that as much as individuals desirous to stream some family-friendly leisure befitting of spooky season. However let’s speak extra about that shock Eastwood cameo, lets?

Nobody handed over their admission (and their children’ admissions) for “Casper” anticipating to see a Clint Eastwood cameo. Whereas the star had at all times allowed the likes of Johnny Carson to make good-natured hay out of his stern, laconic persona, he wasn’t within the behavior of doing pop-ins in different individuals’s movies.

So, when Invoice Pullman, who performs the overwhelmed father of Christina Ricci within the surprisingly melancholy “Casper,” runs into the toilet to splash chilly water in his face and look within the mirror, nobody thought he’d out of the blue see Clint Eastwood staring again at him. However that is what occurred! His visage rapidly morphs into Clint, who glowering threatens him by saying, “I am gonna kill you, your mama and all her bridge enjoying associates.” To high off the strangeness of this second, Clint then morphs into Rodney Dangerfield (we additionally get to see Mel Gibson and the Cryptkeeper).

In order that occurred! And for those who’re questioning why Clint would do one thing so uncharacteristic for a Common film when he was fiercely loyal to Warner Bros., the cameo may’ve been a favor for Steven Spielberg, whose Amblin Leisure produced each “Casper” and “The Bridges of Madison County.” I doubt adults wanted a reminder that some of the hyped films of that summer time was en route, however an additional nudge could not have damage.