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DEAD POOL: A scene where Callahan confronts a robber in the Chinese restaurant.
ENFORCER: When Callahan interviews a female officer for the detective job...
MAGNUM FORCE: Callahan makes a memorable comment after Hal Holbrook's car blows up.
One of my fave Dirty Harry quotes:
Chief of Police: “Callahan, there’s a report that you shot an unarmed, naked man and you;re supposed to find the rapist killer, what have you got to say about that?”
Harry callahan: “Well the reason why I shot him was because he was running naked with a knife, all bloodied and had a hard-on...yeah, I shot him alright.’
Clint Eastwood’s best line was about his mule, and how it don’t like people laughing.
SF District Attorney:
“That man had rights!”
Harry:
“Well I’m all broken up about that man’s rights!”
How is going from John Wayne to John Ford a big transformation? And why should Clint Eastwood be the least bit ashamed of Dirty Harry?
I don’t recall which movie this is in but I liked the scene where is in a room with his partner’s wife and she asks why he never put the moves on her. He doesn’t answer.
My favorite line had to be from Sudden Impact. Callahan confronts some hoods in the process of robbing a diner (I may not have the quotes exactly right):
Callahan: Me and my two friends can’t just let you walk out of here.
Hood (nervously): What friends?? I only see you!!
Callahan: Mr. Smith, Mr. Wesson, and Me!!
Of course, right after that comes the famous “Make my Day” line, but for some reason, I like the lines above better.
“The Enforcer”
Harry Callahan: May I make a statement McKay?
McKay : Go Ahead !
Harry Callahan: Your mouthwash ain’t makin it.
SUDDEN IMPACT: The bad guys flee in terror at the carnival when they see a silouetted Harry with his new .44 automag out and ready for business.
SIT DOWN!MAGNUM FORCE: Callahan makes a memorable comment after Hal Holbrook’s car blows up.
“A man’s just got to know his limitations.”
After reading about Eastwood, I always felt he was more at home playing a piano in a jazz club than he was standing in front of a camera.
Eastwood lucked into playing in the Spaghetti movies just like he lucked into playing for his friend Don Seigel.
Although Harry was supposed to use a Smith and Wesson Model 29 .44 Mag, the actual gun used was the Model 57 in .41 Magnum
From the Article:
Andy Robinson, who played the Scorpio killer in “Dirty Harry,” said the movie cut through because of its grim hero and bundled appeal. “It was police thriller, a cowboy western and a horror film, it was all of them yoked together,” Robinson said. “And because of the times it was released in, it became the film that people argued about. Is it fascist? Is it ripe with irony? After that movie I was turned away at auditions for quite a while. A lot of people in Hollywood were angry.”
Although Pauline Kael of the New Yorker praised the film’s styling as “trim, brutal and exciting,” she also called it “a remarkably single-minded attack on liberal values, with each prejudicial detail in place — a kind of hard-hat ‘The Fountainhead.’ “ Critic Roger Ebert wrote, “The movie’s moral position is fascist. No doubt about it.”
Liberals were so upset they even blackballed the ACTOR who appeared in it, even though he was a relatively struggling unknown!
So America LOVED Dirty Harry and the liberal elites thought it was obviously a “fascist” movie and a “single minded attack on liberal values”, what values? allowing murderers to roam the street with impunity??
Correction. The rumor of a .41 magnum is false. The people at Smith and Wesson plus an interview with John Milius stated the Model 29 really was used in the movie.
Little Bill: “I don’t deserve this.”
Munny: “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it”.
Blam.