And his Smith & Wesson model 29 did all the talking stole the show.

@@chuckselvage3157 The N-frame Smiths from the 1970s were works of art. I have the .357 Magnum version of that same revolver, the model 27 with 8 3/8-inch barrel.

To think, John Wayne was first choice and turned it down

@@christop997 John Wayne is a legend and could have done the role very well in my opinion. Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Paul Newman were all offered the role as well, and they all also could have done great in the role, in my opinion. Frank Sinatra was also offered the role, which would have been a different sort of role for him when compared to The Man With The Golden Arm, From Here To Eternity, and The Manchurian Candidate, but he did some detective movies like Tony Rome, The Detective, and Lady In Cement in the late 1960's and could have done good in this role too. But at the end of the day, I think Clint Eastwood was the best choice and he made the character as iconic as he is. It's just hard to imagine any other legendary actor in the role at this point. Clint Eastwood embodied the Dirty Harry character perfectly.

@@azohundred1353 One of my favourite films of all is John Wayne's The Shootist.. But John Wayne made Brannigan a film like Dirty Harry set in London but it didn't play as well.. He lacked a believably ruthless edge probably because he was already famous with established characteristics.

more like because of a MODERN HOLLYWOOD, the modern audience is a myth.

They already did. Dirty Harry was killed, and they revived him in a secret laboratory and became Logan and eventually joined the X-Men.

Of course it could: 'Dirty Harriet', a green-haired trans 'woman' chasing a misogynist out to kill all the lesbians in town. Disney is probably already in pre-production.

They’re too snowflakey these days.

Of course they can, Harry would be Harriett, a black trans lesbian, the bank robbers would be cis white male, ofc.

I think I have damn near all his stuff.

Just one scene of Clint Eastwood has more charisma in it than the whole 80-2020 movies era i think

Lol

Any badge will tell you, nothing pisses us off more than having to deal with idiots on our lunch or dinner breaks.

That signature squint does appear in a lot of his movies.

*Harry's seniors were suffering from Inferiority Complex, due to Ignoring them by Mayor.* 🤔🤨🙄🤑🤗🤭🤫

It shows that that even though the mayor may be a jerk he isnt an idiot.

that's classic

Yeah, if he didn't he'd have to be put on double secret probation!

It’s rated exactly where it should be.

He's probably a trans DEI hire.

I’d rather look forward to Heaven than spend my time and efforts delaying Hell.

Yes he is and in better chape than Biden hahaha! 😆😆

@@kirkmcgee1Heaven & Hell 😂🤣😂. You’ve been reading those fairy-tales again.

@@kirkmcgee1 yea , you crack on with that, the rest of us will strive in the here and now.

Better shape than Biden I think not. Clint had a full conversation with an empty chair, his days of acting are pretty much done

yeah gun violence is so low now. fckng hypocrite

Well... we have john wick and the equalizer but neither is dirty harry😂

We have Deadpool and Wolverine???? But ya, there will NEVER be another Dirty Harry!!!!!

So ...we wold call her crusty cindy?😂​@Eatzbugs-q2w

​@Eatzbugs-q2wor ruddy cindy

It's also a good fact.

you know nothing of Tuco

Thank you for this!

@@patsaklaras Eli Wallach made the Tuco character legendary in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, without a doubt. One of the all-time great characters and performances in any movie. It is worth noting that James Cagney's chicken eating and shooting in White Heat predates Eli Wallach's by 17 years though. I'd actually think it's possible Clint Eastwood, who's a fan of Cagney, spoke about it with Eli Wallach while filming The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and Wallach might have done his chicken leg window breaking shootout as an homage as well. This might have given Clint Eastwood the idea to pay homage when he played Dirty Harry a few years later after that. Just my take. At the end of the day, Tuco played by Eli Wallach in The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Harry Callahan played by Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, and Cody Jarrett played by James Cagney in White Heat are all legendary performances by legendary actors in legendary movies. All 3 of the movies are some of my all-time favorites.

Nice…thanks for that☺️

the criminals of san fransisco

Luv? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Aren't you a little too old to be so edgy?

Are u bald

left wingers.

@@windowshasyou5561 MAGOT ALERT

They took their time to build characters.

Men were men? I guess you forgot... Alice (male prosty): My friends call me Alice, and I will take a dare. Harry: Well, Alice, when was the last time you were busted? Alice: If you're vice, I'll kill myself! Harry: Well, do it at home!

I agree and I understand what you mean, The film felt genuine and alive. Most films are like that in the 60's,70s,80s, and 90's.

In those days they were only just catching on to the idea of the sequel being the driver of revenue, they did crazy stuff like placing interesting characters played by fine actors in an absorbing narrative.

It's not the movie, nor is it the actors (though after many years they seem larger than life), I think it is the world and all the changes that have happened since the release of the the movie; it was a simpler time then. I was eleven for three months following the release of the movie and it obviously imprinted on me. Seeing it on the big screen helped immensely as we had a black and white television at that time.

Love the Mayor's response.

I love that line.

also I would LOVE to tell our mayor- "well, for the last three-quarter of an hour I've been in your outer office waiting on your ass"

People cannot handle the truth, don’t want the truth, allow truth to be distorted by deception & most of all don’t have the authority of truth. The author, maker & bearer of truth is our Lord Jesus Christ. One and only Son of God who transcends this corrupt world. His conquests over sin begins with truth.

And that line has been around over 50 years

same moive - "I wanna know who in this room knows what law is being broken besides cruelty to animals!"

Most probably they would make Rotten Harry.

Amen.

When it comes to US foreign policy on Russia/Ukraine, we need Clint Eastwood for Secretary of Defense or Secretary of State.

Amen!

Amen

They got the “dirty” part. City is a $hithole, literally, there is human feces all over.

He was fired years ago and now you can see the results of defunding the police...

No way, DEI hires are all you get. Suck it!

America needs him, his marksmanship means he doesn't miss...

The whole world needs a Dirty Harry. To take out the garbage, left by woke.

And the actor, Albert Popwell, whose character said that, played three other parts in Dirty Harry movies.

​@@number4cat1 Yes, he and Clint were friends

Saw it at the glen many moons ago. Kids today don’t even know

Dont ask questions you should knots to know 😂

My dad met him by chance unknowingly. My dad had the opportunity to lead Albert Popwell to the Lord. He trusted Christ as his Savior. He told my dad that he was an actor with Clint Eastwood. My dad thought to himself that seemed far fetched. Until my dad looked him up years later when the internet took off and thought, “oh my, Albert was really in Dirty Harry!”

Definitely

and here

Shitty beer.

ok Boomer😂

Nah, they're boxes on wheels now, one poxy SUV looks like any other. I'm British and the fact has to be faced that American cars of the 50's, 60's and 70's were unbelievable combinations of fun, form and function. If you doubt this fact, Google the 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX, my dream car.

No internet and no smartphones and no AC's.

​@@stevejones8101 71 AMC Javelin for me!

How I do miss riding ( or more accurately, sliding back & forth ) in my grandpa’s full-size autos in the 1970s. Ford Fairlanes, Galaxys, & Falcons…..Sigh…..Not a box on wheels to be found in Grandpa’s garage. And not even the mention of anything Japanese. He was a WW2 combat veteran..

@@MasmydaMusyAlso no KZfaq so back then you couldn't post your boomer, garbage, boring ass comments .

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No dei hires in these movies...🙂

@@spareparts7630 Sadly, it was just starting to come in at that time. Harry Callaghan's character was written to ILLUSTRATE the utter stupidity of that whole "PC" BS that morphed into DEI

@@spareparts7630 Move forward to the Enforcer and you've very much got a DEI hire in inspector Kate Moore played by Tyne Daly. Once again, it's Harry vs. Crime/ Harry vs. bureaucracy. My very favourite line from that movie was "If she wants to play lumberjack she's going to have to learn to roll her end of the log"

Bring in the Slope Roof Rangers!

The 44 Mag was the Administrator

everyone knows that gun owners have a strange fetish for "legally sanctioned" killing

everybody does

Das glaube ich dir....

@@petergarbe2459 Danke, ich auch!

It's called special forces.

California paid a hell of a price for being stylish !

I love to see the Sears and JC Penney's Catalog back.. Oh the womens underwear and Bikini pages were the best They don't make women like they use too

Yeah.... men that have never existed

Portrayed an outlaw

​@@ebarteldesthey did. These were the kind of men who founded the american nation.

@@sonnylatchstring Can you specify what was unlawful about any of what he did? And if so, how is it reasonable to outlaw whatever he was doing? I guess you prefer the "just following orders" types...

Absolutely, pure 70s bliss, when they still knew how to make them right.

1971

A sight, not a site. You see sights since you have sight with which to see. You may work on a site because it is a place you could be. Independence since 1776 and yet still not managed to master the English language. 🤣

It was a wonderful time and I had so much fun there as a young lad. Sadly SF has losts its charm and way.

Why not? Bring SF back! I would love to visit that city as it was 50 years ago. I live in northern europe.

History fact.. After the ( not so) great San Francisco earthquake, a vast majority of the property rebuilds were done by the supply of the native Enzed Kauri tree timber. Native NZ wood trade is banned now of course because we actually got a clue.

Every city in the west could use a few like him.

There’s plenty willing to be one. The system doesn’t want them.

Police Chief: "That was a troupe of actors performing Shakespeare in the park."

Hahaha mee too

Wait, wasn't that Enrico Pallazzo?

Horace

@@WilliamBonney-gl2qf Yeah, JAMF! He kept calling Harry that and Harry had to ask what that meant. 🤣

great movie I love Clint's movies all great

Yup. There’s a shot that happens kinda off screen that many people, including myself, miss.

Should always count your rounds.

Clint Eastwood uses a lot of the same people in his various movies - loyalty and a paycheck. Don't see much of that anymore, treating people right.

12 Years later, in Sudden Impact from 1983 and it was his last act in Dirty Harry movies. In 1973 he played a pimp killed by a traffic cop in "Magnum Force" and in 1976 he played Mustafa, a leader of black group in "The Enforcer". Actor didn't star in "The Dead Pool"

That actor is the late Albert Popwell a good friend of Clint Eastwood's since meeting in the movie "Coogans Bluff" in 1968.

"Good morning, Horace."

Yeah, he was in all of them except for the last one. Good friend of mr Eastwood, loved him in Sudden Impact.

I have worked in the film industry for some time, and believe me, Hollywood needs him more than ever.

Yeah !

@Haff, Thanks for your note. All best.

@@BeauDare-ov7py In Germany we had a superb actor playing a role like Clint Eastwood, his name was Klaus Loewitsch and the TV show was Peter Strohm. In his role he was an ex Hamburg Kripo cop blasting away mafiosi when the normal police couldnt. A superb actor!

@Schlipper, Many thanks for your interesting note. This actor, Klaus sounds absolutely wonderful. All best wishes.

Sadly

Because of drugs.

@@larss.1876lol sure, “drugs”

Yeah, such a lovely city it's become. No longer a cesspool of rogue cops it used to be.

@@missingno88 If not, what is the reason?

they recycle the actors, I watched “The Untouchables” and they had Edward Platt, chief in Get Smart and Dwayne Hickman of Dobie Gillis fame. Also The Professor from Gilligan’s Island. Probably many others.

Got to have lunch with Albert Popwell once, Very cool dude, RIP

was gonna post the same

Always liked that little touch. Rather than today where some films are seemingly made to consist entirely of Easter eggs.

I have stayed at that house. I climbed into the treehouse. I rock!

They should release them in theaters, one a week. It'll probably be the biggest crowds.

Seeing how Warner is being run these days , they would destroy every copy of Dirty Harry just to get a tax break.

King Arthur, Excalibur? Wish I could get it on KZfaq! Great movie!!!

Magnum Force!

Clint has already Signed off on 4K Scan upgrades of the Dirty Harry films, and apparently Where Eagles Dare also, They’ll now be waiting for the right time to release them.

That's what happens when you eat an All-American hot dog.

Ở Việt Nam là ăn bánh mỳ đặc biệt ngon đấy...

A man's gotta eat and know his limitations.

I thought he was one of the robbers..."Who's we sucka!" "Smith, Wesson, and me!"

@@JamesR1234 Nah. He played Horace.

@@mortb9 You are of course right. I stand corrected. It's been awhile since I saw Sudden Impact. In going down memory lane, he was also the pimp in Magnum Force, played Mustapha in The Enforcer, Horace of course in Sudden Impact, and back in 1968 was threatening Clint Eastwood's character with a switchblade in Coogan's Bluff as "Wonderful Digby." He had a long and distinguished career that lasted for decades.

Yes, that is typically something they do after a life of crime. "Turn dey laafe arount"

actually that actor, Albert Popwell, was in the first four Dirty Harry movies. Bank Robber in Dirty Harry, a Pimp in Magnum Force, Big Ed Mustafa in The Enforcer and Horace King in Sudden Impact. The only one he wasn't in was The Dead Pool

And Fletcher from Outlaw Josey Wales. John and Clint go back aways.

Harry might get put on double secret probation if he is not careful.

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son!"

Face it Dorfman, you threw up ON Dean Wormer!

@@michaelbast7064 Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You f***ed up. You trusted us! Hey, make the best of it!

😂 not until he shot all the crooks !

What did that poster cost you?

hey Andrew, you love this classic movie.

@@bluenetmarketing Good morning. Very little and I cannot remember exactly. Purchased in the UK back in the 1980's from a retired cinema manager who had it stored in a spare bedroom. We were fortunate and it was one amongst a number we, my brother and I, purchased that day. We also have the UK promotion booklet sent to cinemas before the film was released so that cinema managers would see the promotion material they would receive should or could be displayed. I also worked in a cinema myself when finishing my exams at weekends. We are great Eastwood fans and are fortunate to have a number of original UK and US posters and sets of cinema promotion stills. All part of a larger collection.

@@backwashjoe7864 Good morning and yes absolutely. Have a great day. Hot and sunny in my part of the UK today! 😀

@@andrewlorenz3139 That is fascinating information. I'm looking for some old monster movie posters at the moment.

No zombie boys

We need them both now, more then ever.

Both in real life would be a gift from heaven for any city with high crime rates..!

Most of the cars are from the 60s

Of course they are. The movie came out in the early 70s.

No, we all figured out the first part. Not sure I agree on the second.