A beloved Western movie is airing on TV tonight

Also available on streaming now, the Western is from the same director-actor team behind Dirty Harry and Escape From Alcatraz.

Directed by Don Siegel (who Eastwood collaborated with several times, including on Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz and The Beguiled), the film sees the actor play a gunslinger named Hogan who saves the young nun Sara (Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment) from a group of bandits.

"The two escape to a nearby camp of Mexican revolutionaries, who have hired Hogan to help fight the invading French army. En route, Sara turns out to be surprisingly crude for a nun, drinking, smoking and using curse words," the plot synopsis reads.

"When she also proves to be handy with a gun, Hogan begins wondering if she is telling him the whole truth."

Positively received by critics and a hit at the box office upon release, Two Mules for Sister Sara is worth seeking out by Western aficionados just for the sheer level of talent involved with the project.

As well as the major names listed above, soundtrack legend Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) composed the score and cult director Budd Boetticher (The Tall T) provided the story.

Two Mules for Sister Sara is airing on TG4 at 9.05pm as part of its Friday night Western slot. It is also currently streaming on the service NOW.

Here are the other movies airing on TV tonight:

The Inbetweeners Movie - E4 - 9pm

The big screen spin-off of the hit sitcom.

Lethal Weapon 2 - ITV4 - 9pm

Danny Glover and Mel Gibson return in this buddy cop action sequel.

Law Abiding Citizen - Legend - 9pm

Gerard Butler's vigilante and Jamie Foxx's prosecuting attorney face off in this action thriller we recommended last week.

Daylight - Legend Xtra - 9pm

Sylvester Stallone stars in this ’90s disaster flick that has its fans.

Prey - Film4 - 9pm

It's a Native American warrior (Amber Midthunder) versus a killer alien hunter in this awesome prequel to the Predator franchise set in early 18th-century America.

You can check out JOE's review of its now in cinemas sequel, Predator: Badlands, right here.

The Hurt Locker - RTÉ2 - 9.40pm

The Oscar Best Picture-winning Iraq war drama from director Kathryn Bigelow (A House of Dynamite).

Attack the Block - Film4 - 10.50pm

Another great movie about young people fighting aliens, except this time it takes place on a council estate in South London.

Benediction - BBC Two - 11pm

Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi play the British war poet Siegfried Sassoon in this acclaimed 2021 biopic.

Unthinkable - Legend - 11.10pm

This very tense thriller follows a black-ops interrogator (Samuel L. Jackson) and an FBI agent (Carrie-Anne Moss) who try to press a captive suspected terrorist (Michael Sheen) into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the US.

While She Was Out - Legend Xtra - 11.15pm

Oscar-winner Kim Basinger stars in this thriller as a suburban housewife forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs.

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