A $600m spectacle opened worldwide on his name alone. His 1996, when Jerry Maguire and Mission: Impossible made him a star-producer, is the year the lattice actually wants.
The Last Samurai ’03 → Collateral ’04 → War of the Worlds ’05 → Elizabethtown ’05 → Mission: Impossible III ’06
A domestic hit made at the height of five straight years as the biggest draw alive. Dirty Harry is louder; Unforgiven, which he directed, is the prestige second summit.
Thunderbolt and Lightfo… ’74 → The Eiger Sanction ’75 → The Outlaw Josey Wales ’76 → The Enforcer ’76 → The Gauntlet ’77