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[RedKelly]

Was it original enough to make a whole series out of?Sure you got a couple famous lines out of the them but the movies couldn't hold up to the challenge. I do though think Eastwood saves the movies with his acting in my opion only the first and fourth deserve much credit.You have to admit though if he was pointing a 44 magnum at you, you'd have to ask yourself one question...

[jaguar007]

While entertaining, none of the sequels lived up to the original Dirty Harry.

I do remember Sudden impact being the most popular of the sequels back when released in 1983. "go ahead, make my day"

[Righty007]

I love the Dirty Harry series despite each sequel getting progressively worse. The first two sequels are okay but the last two suck. Jim Carrey's in the fifth one, by the way.

I had a dream a few days ago about Clint Eastwood. In it, I asked him if I could pen a sixth Dirty Harry film with a younger lead actor. He said yes. I actually had this dream.

[Napoleon Solo]

The original Dirty Harry movie was directed by Don Siegel, who very much was Eastwood's mentor when it came to directing. Mr. E repaid the favor by including Siegel in a small role in Play Misty for Me.

[Bondian]

I love the Dirty Harry series despite each sequel getting progressively worse. The first two sequels are okay but the last two suck. Jim Carrey's in the fifth one, by the way.

I had a dream a few days ago about Clint Eastwood. In it, I asked him if I could pen a sixth Dirty Harry film with a younger lead actor. He said yes. I actually had this dream.

Glad it wasn't all dirty, Mate.

I can remember seeing 'Dirty Harry' at the cinema. The crazy thing was, I was older than the Mate I went with, and I didn't get in. We went back the next day and I borrowed some of his clothes to make me look older. Still didn't get in. The only alternative was to bunk in via the exit door.

[Mr_Wint]

I love all of them. But 'Dirty Harry' and 'Sudden Impact' are the best ones (Dead Pool is not very good).

[Righty007]

Which one has the airplane hostages?

[dinovelvet]

BTW Dirty Harry will be returning in videogame form with the voice and likeness of Clint Eastwood -

[Righty007]

BTW Dirty Harry will be returning in videogame form with the voice and likeness of Clint Eastwood -

It's been cancelled.

[Napoleon Solo]

Which one has the airplane hostages?

Magnum Force, the second film in the series.

[Righty007]

Which one has the airplane hostages?

Magnum Force, the second film in the series.

Thanks. That's a great scene. I own the whole series on DVD but some of them run together in my mind.

[TheSaint]

The original Dirty Harry movie was directed by Don Siegel, who very much was Eastwood's mentor when it came to directing. Mr. E repaid the favor by including Siegel in a small role in Play Misty for Me.

Actually, Play Misty For Me was filmed before Dirty Harry.

[dinovelvet]

BTW Dirty Harry will be returning in videogame form with the voice and likeness of Clint Eastwood -

It's been cancelled.

Hmm a quick search later and it seems you're right, although the only source seems to be a wikipedia entry, so who knows.

[Napoleon Solo]

The original Dirty Harry movie was directed by Don Siegel, who very much was Eastwood's mentor when it came to directing. Mr. E repaid the favor by including Siegel in a small role in Play Misty for Me.

Actually, Play Misty For Me was filmed before Dirty Harry.

Siegel had directed Eastwood in three other movies before Dirty Harry and that's why Siegel got cast in a small role in Play Misty for Me.

Specifically:

Coogan's Bluff:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062824/

Two Mules for Sister Sara:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065134/

The Beguiled:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066819/


They also did one final collaboration in 1979 with Escape From Alcatraz.

Edited by Napoleon Solo, 12 November 2007 - 12:25 AM.

[HildebrandRarity]

Magnum Force was one of my favourite movies as a kid (along with Thunderball and You Only Live Twice) on TV and, depending on the time of evening or night, bits would either be cut out or not.

This is a 44 Magnum...it can blow your head clean off...Do you feel lucky?

[Professor Dent]

I still like the first one the best although Sudden Impact has it's moments - like the waitress in the diner putting all that sugar in Callahan's coffee during the robery & Meat Head. Seeing John Vernon (aka Dean Wormer from Animal House) as the mayor always makes laugh.

[Bryce (003)]

Good old Harry.

His very first line spoken in "Sudden Impact" is my favorite. Some punks have just beaten a murder rap on a technicality and they taunt Harry riding in an elevator out of the court house.

Punk: "Hey Callahan. Don't look so puked out. Better luck next time....Fool."

Harry reaches and grabs him by his cheap tie and slams him into the corner of the elevator and gets right in his face.

"Listen punk...To me you're nothing but dog shit...and a lot of things can happen to dog shit. It can get scraped up by a shovel, or it can get stepped on and squashed or it can just dry up and blow away in the wind. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits you."

Harry flings him back into the other side. As everyone exits the elevator, the DA looks to Harry. "You're a class act Callahan."

There's a reason crime dropped 40% his first year in Carmel. Nobody wanted to deal with the Mayor.

[killkenny kid]

Hey, Bryce, you said the spit word.

[Garth007]

I liked the Dirty Harry movies. They were very well played. I heard I don't know who long ago that Clint Eastwood or someone wanted to remake Dirty Harry. I heard this on the radio or CanMag. cant remember which one. wounder if this is true??

[Bondian]

Hey, Bryce, you said the spit word.

Yeah. But it's safer if only admins/mods are allowed to bypass the 'bad word filter'.

Na. I can see how it's done, but I'm not telling.

I must brush-up on my Harry, have only seem the first movie.

Maybe I'm now old enough to be able to view these movies. (only just)

Cheers,


Ian

[stamper]

This was a great series, no matter how B some of them were.

There's nothing more cool than having a couple of beers, chips, and watch Callahan blowing off these crooks and murderers and rapists to hell with his 44.

Even better, in Sudden Impact, he used a 44 auto. Too bad he didn't carry it in the 5th, which is the worse (it's not even in cinemascope).

I love Sudden Impact, because it's totally unlike the others films. Eastwood make first a 40mn regular Harry movie, then the camera goes up, as all the others end, and we switch to another, totally different, dark movie in that small town by the sea. Harry makes it with a serial killer woman, and let her go at the end, you can't better that !

[Mr. Blofeld]

Yeah. But it's safer if only admins/mods are allowed to bypass the 'bad word filter'.

Na. I can see how it's done, but I'm not telling.

Tell us your secrets, O Great Teacher!

[Bryce (003)]

Even better, in Sudden Impact, he used a 44 auto.

Horace: Sweet Sister sadie...Where in the Hell did you get that?

Harry: I've had it for a while. Thought I should get used to it.

Horace: Fabulous, them coming after you in tanks.

Harry: Yeah, they make 'em these days for diplomats and oil shieks. Inpenetratable to anything but artillery.

Horace: Well you've got that covered. (raises combat shotgun and blasts target twice)

Harry: Not bad.

Horace: "Not bad" my ass. You gotta strain the remains for the fingerprints.

Harry: (loading clip and chambering a round) Well, this is the forty-four magnum Automag. It fires a a three-hundred grain cartridge and if properly used, can remove the fingerprints.

Harry empties clip into target.

Great bit and a fine pistol if you can find one.

[Bondian]

Yeah. But it's safer if only admins/mods are allowed to bypass the 'bad word filter'.

Na. I can see how it's done, but I'm not telling.

Tell us your secrets, O Great Teacher!

LOL. It's all in the BB Code.

[00Twelve]

Sweet thread. I love the Dirty Harry movies. Especially the first two and Sudden Impact. I love cop movies from that era, specifically the great ones about cops who went against orders if they needed to. True, the sequels kind of got worse as they went, minus Sudden Impact. That one was a little more true to the original's form, I thought. As said earlier, the sugar in the coffee ploy was classic; really felt like something that would have fit in the first movie.

Now where's the love for Magnum Force? Yeah, it's got some cheese, but the trick with the marksmanship competition was a great bit of strategy.

[Brian Flagg]

I've been in a HUGE Dirty Harry mood for the past month or so, and much to my chagrin, the DVD boxed set of the films is OOP. So I've had to feed the frenzy by listening to the scores from the first three films, as well as the "Further Adventures" series by "Dane Hartman", which is a pen name. There were 12 books in the series and I've got five of them so far. They were published in the early Eighties and stopped eight months or so before SUDDEN IMPACT was released.

The first film is by far the best!


Great artwork on the book covers:


http://the-dirtiest.com/thenovels.htm

[Mr_Wint]

(after some quarrel)
Harry: Can I make a statement, Captain?
Captain: Go ahead.
Harry: You mouthwash ain't makin' it.

[Napoleon Solo]

Now where's the love for Magnum Force? Yeah, it's got some cheese, but the trick with the marksmanship competition was a great bit of strategy.

Well, I'll always have a soft spot for Magnum Force. I was 15, but I looked old enough to get in on my own despite its R-rating. First movie I tried it.

[Bryce (003)]

Harry: Well, we're just not gonna let you boys walk out of here.

Punk: (puzzled) Who's 'we' sucker.

Harry: (setting down coffee and slowly reaching in his coat) Smith and Wesson and me.

There was a special on cable not too long ago hosted by the late Robert Urich (who also played one of the vigilante motorcycle cops in Magnum Force) that covered all the films. It was really well done much like the 007 docs.

The great thing was the telling by Clint, the writers and everyone of how each of the films reflected their times and true crimes or events. Much like any of the Law & Order series do today.

[stamper]

Harry : "Do you have kids, lieutenant ?"

Lieutenant : "No."

Harry : "Lucky for them !"