# A Clint Eastwood scene that's bugged me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 4, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879 "2025-05-04T23:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/1 "2025-05-04T23:54:50Z")
From one of his spaghetti westerns. Clint is taking a bubble bath, and somebody thinks that would be a good time to ambush him. He’s wrong, because Clint has his gun in the bath with him, and blows him away. In the movie, was he expecting trouble, or would he always take his guns into the bath with him? Seems fantastical that somebody would do that, mainly because it wouldn’t do your guns any good. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/2 "2025-05-05T00:04:17Z")
Sounds like “High Plains Drifter”. He actually was ambushed while getting a shave and had his guns under the towel. He was later ambushed by the angry woman while in the tub, but didn’t have his gun in the water. But, yeah. He was expecting trouble in the barber shop, so had his guns handy. Don’t think I know the movie you are talking about. It would seem that guns in the water might be problematic. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/3 "2025-05-05T00:09:49Z")
The bubble bath scene I know from an Eastwood movie is with Tuco in _The Good, the Bad and the Ugly_ [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (10/12) Movie CLIP - When You Have to Shoot, Shoot (1966) HD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrYtD7gSWsI) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/4 "2025-05-05T00:10:03Z")
Metal cartridge cases are waterproof for at least a short time. As long as the barrel isn’t full of water, there shouldn’t be a problem. Though if the gun is submerged, the water _might_ slow the hammer enough to prevent a solid strike on the primer. Modern guns being fired under water. > **[Underwater Bullets at 27,000fps - The Slow Mo Guys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OubvTOHWTms%2F)** > > Gav and Dan slow down time by over one thousand times to show you how bullets look when fired from an underwater gun.Follow Gav on Twitter - https://twitter.... ---
**Author:** ![bodangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bodangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bodangus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/5 "2025-05-05T00:12:46Z")
You might be thinking about Tuco played by Eli Wallach in the movie, The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Tuco is in a very bubble filled bathtub when a one armed guy shows up to kill him. Tuco has a pistol which he was holding out of view inside the bubbles but not under the water. ---
**Author:** ![bodangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bodangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bodangus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/6 "2025-05-05T00:13:52Z")
Shoulda posted quicker I guess ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/7 "2025-05-05T00:15:22Z")
Ida swure it was Clint. I can even see his stupid little cigar in my mind’s eye 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/8 "2025-05-05T01:09:42Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I can even see his stupid little cigar in my mind’s eye Must not have been enough bubbles. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/9 "2025-05-05T01:14:54Z")
It doesn’t have to make sense, it’s just a movie. You can’t second guess everything that happens in a film. I write screenplays, and there is often something in a scene that would never happen in real life. As long as it advances the plot, it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/10 "2025-05-05T01:20:06Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > It doesn’t have to make sense, it’s just a movie. Now there’s a thread ender for you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/11 "2025-05-05T01:25:13Z")
> [@bodangus](#): > > Shoulda posted quicker I guess If you’re going to post, POST! Don’t monologue. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/12 "2025-05-05T01:26:50Z")
> [@bodangus](#): > > Tuco has a pistol which he was holding out of view inside the bubbles but not under the water. “When you hafta shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” after he blows that guy away. Then he wipes the bubbles off the gun in a very, uh, manly and insulting way (to the guy he killed). ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/13 "2025-05-05T01:38:57Z")
My favorite movie with Eli Wallach is _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_. My wife’s is _The Holiday_ (I also like it). A lot of room between those two. Not sure I can comment on what the bubble bath would do to a gun back then… ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/14 "2025-05-05T02:02:11Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Not sure I can comment on what the bubble bath would do to a gun back then… Maybe the gun was brand new and he was doing a relic, which only makes sense if you’re a guitarist, and even then it doesn’t make any sense 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/15 "2025-05-05T02:02:30Z")
It’s a common thing in westerns. I’m sure Wayne did it a few times. It amazes me the stuff westerns tell unsuspecting viewers what will happen with shooting guns, in many scenarios. They’re mostly unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/16 "2025-05-05T02:10:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’m sure Wayne did it a few times. Never saw, nor wish to see, John Wayne in a bubble bath. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/17 "2025-05-05T02:14:52Z")
No bathtub scenes, but John Wayne did shoot a baddie through a shower door in Big Jake ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/18 "2025-05-05T02:16:25Z")
Big Jake? I heard he was dead! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/19 "2025-05-05T02:16:44Z")
Not hardly ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879/20 "2025-05-05T02:21:23Z")
The woman who shoots at Eastwood in the tub is Marianna Hill, who played Dr. Helen Noel in the Star Trek (TOS) episode, “Dagger of the Mind.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clint-eastwood-scene-thats-bugged-me/1017879.md?page=2)