"Dirty Harry (film series) Dirty Harry is an American film series featuring San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector ""Dirty"" Harry Callahan who is notorious for being extremely violent and ruthless in his methods, and a danger for any partner assigned to him. Actor Clint Eastwood portrayed Callahan in all five of the series' films. ""Dirty Harry"" (1971) was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan. Harry tracks serial killer Scorpio (loosely based on the Zodiac killer). Eastwood's iconic portrayal of the blunt-speaking, unorthodox detective set the style for a number of his subsequent roles, and"
"Dirty Harry (character) Inspector Harold Francis Callahan, also known as Dirty Harry, is a fictional character in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series, which consists of ""Dirty Harry"" (1971), ""Magnum Force"" (1973), ""The Enforcer"" (1976), ""Sudden Impact"" (1983) and ""The Dead Pool"" (1988). Callahan is portrayed by Clint Eastwood in each film. From his debut, Callahan became the template for a new kind of movie cop: an antihero who does not hesitate to cross professional and ethical boundaries in pursuit of his own vision of justice, especially when the law is poorly served by an inept bureaucracy. Callahan is often considered"
"far a free, democratic society can go to protect itself. The original draft ended with a police sniper, instead of Callahan, shooting Scorpio. Another earlier version of the story was set in Seattle, Washington. Four more drafts of the script were written. Although Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood's signature role, he was not a top contender for the part. The role of Harry Callahan was offered to John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, and later to Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Burt Lancaster. In his 1980 interview with ""Playboy"", George C. Scott claimed that he was initially offered the role,"
"action films like ""The Lineup"" (1958) and ""Hell Is for Heroes"" (1962), as well as the original ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" (1956). He later directed five films starring Clint Eastwood, including ""Dirty Harry"". In New York City's Spanish Harlem, police detectives Dan Madigan and Rocco Bonaro break into a sleazy apartment and arrest Barney Benesch, a hoodlum wanted for questioning by a Brooklyn precinct. Momentarily distracted by the suspect's nude girl friend, the two detectives are outwitted by Benesch, who escapes with their guns. When it is discovered that Benesch was wanted for homicide, Madigan and Bonaro are reprimanded"
"in the San Francisco Police Department systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals, conveying the idea that there are even worse rogue cops than Dirty Harry. Terrence Malick had introduced the concept in an unused draft for the first film; director Don Siegel disliked the idea and had Malick's draft thrown out, but Clint Eastwood remembered it for this film. Eastwood specifically wanted to convey that, despite the 1971 film's perceived politics, Harry was not a complete vigilante. David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich and Kip Niven were cast as the young vigilante cops. Milius was a gun aficionado and political"
"and owner of Famous Cleaners & Dyers in Detroit, Michigan. He gained notoriety in the news for being the key witness testifying against the infamous Purple Gang in a trial that lasted from 1928–1929. The prosecution alleged extortion activities against Detroit area businesses during the sometime violent showdown known as the Cleaners & Dyers Wars. Harry testified under oath that the Purple Gang asked for $1000 per week from his and other area cleaners & dyers' businesses for their ""protection"" against violence. A Detroit Mob War soon ensued between the Italian, Irish, and Jewish bootleggers over territory. The Purples fought"
"with the characters played by Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. The rooftop setting of the building used in ""Dirty Harry"" was also used a decade later in the Chuck Norris film ""An Eye for an Eye"" (1981). The southeast corner of California and Kearny is about above sea level, so the top of the building is over . With the Transamerica Pyramid, 555 California Street shows the direction San Francisco's downtown was moving during the 1960s before campaigns against high-rise buildings in the 1970s and 1980s forced development to move south of Market Street. The Transamerica Pyramid is"
"University of San Francisco, menace the municipality of the town with his laser ray if is not delivered to him five million dollars. ""Blackmail laser for the city of San Francisco. California. Some criminals are threatening to reduce it to a heap of glowing embers unless they are given a huge sum. The authorities did not give up and investigations are handled by Ron, a skilled inspector with a reputation for hard (like the 'Dirty Harry' cop interpreted to asbestos years ago by Clint Eastwood). (...) As reflected in more than evident from the plot, it is an action film,"
"lasted more than 16 years. Both of Garrett's parents died within nine months of each other when he was 13 years old. He was sent to live with aunts, first in Sacramento and then to Los Angeles. His film credits included a role as a bartender in the 1977 film, ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"", opposite Diane Keaton and a police officer in the 1971 film, ""Dirty Harry"", starring Clint Eastwood. On television, Garrett was best known for playing a coroner's office photographer in more than 100 episodes of ""Quincy, M.E."" throughout the 1980s. His other television credits included roles on"
"a March 1985 speech to the American Business Conference. Promising to veto any proposed tax rises, he challenged those who wanted them to: ""Go ahead, make my day."" It has also given its name to a law in Colorado, the Make My Day Law, which protects homeowners who use lethal force against intruders. Dirty Harry (character) Inspector Harold Francis Callahan, also known as Dirty Harry, is a fictional character in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series, which consists of ""Dirty Harry"" (1971), ""Magnum Force"" (1973), ""The Enforcer"" (1976), ""Sudden Impact"" (1983) and ""The Dead Pool"" (1988). Callahan is portrayed by Clint"
"considered to be the darkest, ""dirtiest"" and most violent film of the series. This is the last time Eastwood starred in a film with Sondra Locke. The line, ""Go ahead, make my day"", uttered by Eastwood is often cited as one of cinema's immortal lines and was famously referenced by President Ronald Reagan in his campaigns. The film features multiple extrajudicial killings by Harry. In 1984, Eastwood starred in the provocative thriller ""Tightrope"", inspired by newspaper articles about an elusive Bay Area rapist. Set in New Orleans (to avoid confusion with the ""Dirty Harry"" films), During filming, Eastwood had an"
"location in the Philippines. He also refused the part of a platoon leader in Ted Post's Vietnam War film, ""Go Tell the Spartans"" and instead decided to make a third ""Dirty Harry"" film, ""The Enforcer"". The film had Callahan partnered with a new female officer (Tyne Daly) to face a San Francisco Bay area group resembling the Symbionese Liberation Army. The film, culminating in a shootout on Alcatraz island, was considerably shorter than the previous ""Dirty Harry"" films at 95minutes, but was a major commercial success grossing $100 million worldwide to become Eastwood's highest-grossing film to date. In 1977, he"
"that he has no interest in acting in another ""Dirty Harry"" film. In 2000, he jokingly spoke about potential sequels: """"Dirty Harry VI""! Harry is retired. He's standing in a stream, fly-fishing. He gets tired of using the pole— and BA-BOOM! Or Harry is retired, and he catches bad guys with his walker?"" The Dead Pool The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action film directed by Buddy Van Horn, written by Steve Sharon, and starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector ""Dirty"" Harry Callahan. It is the fifth and final film in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series, set in San Francisco,"
"local and federal police committing offences and overstepping their authority by entrapment and obstruction of justice. Author McGilligan, argued that America needed a hero, a winner at a time when the authorities were losing the battle against crime. The box-office success of ""Dirty Harry"" led to the production of four sequels. In the 2007 film ""Zodiac"", also set in San Francisco and inspired by the Zodiac Killer, cartoonist Robert Graysmith approaches police detective Dave Toschi at the cinema, where he is watching ""Dirty Harry"" with his wife. When Graysmith tells Toschi he is going to catch the Zodiac killer, Toschi"
"Dirty Harry novels ""Dirty Harry"" novels include film novelizations and original tie-ins based on the ""Dirty Harry"" film franchise. Like the films, the novels portray Inspector ""Dirty Harry"" Callahan as he ruthlessly fights criminals. Novelizations of the first four films, ""Dirty Harry"", ""Magnum Force"", ""The Enforcer"", and ""Sudden Impact"", were published between 1971 and 1983. Additionally, after star Clint Eastwood announced he would make no further ""Dirty Harry"" films after ""The Enforcer"", Warner Books published twelve new novels attributed to Dane Hartman, a collective pen name used by at least three authors, between 1981 and 1983. Warner Bros. licensed novelizations"
"mid-1985. Black stated that his intention was to do an ""urban western"" inspired by ""Dirty Harry"" where a violent character ""reviled for what he did, what he is capable of, the things he believed in"" is eventually recruited for being the one that could solve the problem. The protagonists would be everymen policemen, ""guys shuffling in a town like Los Angeles searching for something noble as justice when they're just guys in washed and worn suits seeking a paycheck"". According to Black, his original first draft of the script was very different and much darker than the final film. It"
"bureaucracy. Although Eastwood was able to convince Siegel not to have Callahan toss the badge, when the scene was filmed, Eastwood changed his mind and went with Siegel's preferred ending. One evening Eastwood and Siegel had been watching the San Francisco 49ers in Kezar Stadium in the last game of the season and thought the eerie Greek amphitheater-like setting would be an excellent location for shooting one of the scenes where Callahan encounters Scorpio. In San Francisco, California In Marin County, California In Los Angeles County, California The soundtrack for ""Dirty Harry"" was created by composer Lalo Schifrin, who created"
"The Dead Pool The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action film directed by Buddy Van Horn, written by Steve Sharon, and starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector ""Dirty"" Harry Callahan. It is the fifth and final film in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series, set in San Francisco, California. The story concerns the manipulation of a dead pool game by a serial killer, whose efforts are confronted by the hardened detective Callahan. It co-stars Liam Neeson and Patricia Clarkson, with Jim Carrey in his first action dramatic role. It is the only film in the series to not feature Albert Popwell,"
"Landing area owned by Alfred Finnila - owner of Finnila's Finnish Baths - as well as the adjacent East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Larkspur, California. After hijacking a school bus, the character of ""Scorpio"" - played by Andy Robinson - drives into East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at the Greenbrae interchange, before crashing into the site of the Hutchinson Company quarry. During the filming of ""Dirty Harry"", the movie crew - including the actor Clint Eastwood - visited Finnila's Finnish Baths in San Francisco for sauna bathing and for massage. Upon completing the construction of the unique Finnila's Finnish"
"Marked increases in cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers were reported from the mid-1950s through 1980. On May 19, 1953, the United States government detonated the 32-kiloton (130 TJ) atomic bomb (nicknamed ""Harry"") at the Nevada Test Site. The bomb later gained the name ""Dirty Harry"" because of the tremendous amount of off-site fallout generated by the bomb. Winds carried fallout to St. George, where residents reported ""an oddly metallic sort of taste in the air."" The Howard Hughes motion picture, ""The Conqueror"", was being filmed in the"
"a total of $46,236,000 in the United States, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 1976. Overall this figure made it the most profitable of the ""Dirty Harry"" series for seven years until the release of ""Sudden Impact"". The Enforcer (1976 film) The Enforcer is a 1976 American action thriller and the third in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series. Directed by James Fargo, it stars Clint Eastwood as Inspector ""Dirty"" Harry Callahan, Tyne Daly as Inspector Kate Moore and DeVeren Bookwalter as terrorist leader Bobby Maxwell. It was also the last film in the series to feature John Mitchum as"
"Eastwood as a country western. Later on, Red Stovall (Clint Eastwood) suffers from tuberculosis at the Grand Ole Opry. He takes out on a stage to Nashville, Tennessee, Clint's son Kyle Eastwood is his nephew. The script was adapted slightly from the novel. A scene in the novel in which Red gives a reefer to his fourteen-year-old son (played by real-life son Kyle) was altered by Eastwood. The ending was also changed to a song playing on the radio written by Red on his death bed, shortly before his burial. The fourth ""Dirty Harry"" film ""Sudden Impact"" (1983), is widely"
"an adjacent building. On April 16, 2015, the SFPD officially moved its headquarters to a new location at Mission Bay. The SFPD has been portrayed in films such as ""The Sniper"", ""Vertigo"", ""Freebie and the Bean"", ""The Laughing Policeman"", ""Bullitt"", the ""Dirty Harry"" film series, ""48 Hrs."", ""A View to a Kill"", ""Metro"", ""Rush Hour"", and ""Zodiac"", as well as television series such as ""The Lineup"" (aka ""San Francisco Beat""), ""Ironside"", ""The Streets of San Francisco"", ""McMillan & Wife"", ""Nash Bridges"", ""The Division"", ""Killer Instinct"", ""The Evidence"", ""Charmed"" (1998–2006), ""Murder in the First"" and ""Monk"". The ""Dirty Harry"" film series"
"one of his earliest roles. With cinematography by Jack Priestley, the episodes were filmed on location in Chicago. Television critics noted ""Lady Blue"" emphasis on violence, calling Mahoney ""Dirty Harriet"" (after Clint Eastwood's character Dirty Harry). Rose said that she joined the project after being drawn to its genre. She prepared for the role by watching Eastwood's films, received advice from Eastwood on how to handle a gun, and practiced at a shooting range. After the pilot aired, ""Lady Blue"" was criticized by several watchdog organizations (particularly the National Coalition on Television Violence) as the most violent show on television."
"and spent time in Austin, TX and New Orleans, LA before settling in Nashville, TN where he found work in the construction industry. In 1997, on a visit to New Orleans, Harry was attacked, robbed, and taken by car at gunpoint to withdraw money from an ATM. His kidnappers threatened to shoot him and dump his body. During the ordeal, he thought of what he would like to do if he survived. After returning from the trip, he began writing, drawing, and painting. By the early 2000s, his focus outside his work as a flooring installer turned to painting. Harry's"
"and the United States Department of Defense who expressed contempt for the film. At the time, the film was a commercial rather than a critical success, and has only come to be viewed more favorably in recent times. The film grossed $70 million domestically. Eastwood starred in ""The Dead Pool"" (1988), the fifth and final film in the ""Dirty Harry"" series. It co-starred Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, and a young Jim Carrey who plays Johnny Squares, a drug-addled rock star and the first of the victims on a list of celebrities drawn up by horror film director Peter Swan (Neeson)"
"up with crime in the streets. The film was released at a time (1970–71) when there were prevalent reports of local and federal police committing atrocities and overstepping their authority by entrapment and obstruction of justice. Americans needed a hero, a winner at a time when the authorities were losing the battle against crime. After release in December 1971, ""Dirty Harry"" proved a phenomenal success which would go on to become Siegel's highest-grossing film and the start of a series of films which is arguably Eastwood's signature role, with fans demanding more. Although some critics, including Jay Cocks of ""Time"","
"bullet fired by Clint Eastwood's fictional character Dirty Harry in the eponymous movie series. Eastwood's character actually fired a .44 magnum load from his iconic Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver, neither the same charge nor the same bullet as any .45 caliber round, including the 5.56x45mm. Still, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)'s intent was likely more about shock and awe than it was about the actual ordinance characteristics itself. The ammunition was tested in 2010 in the Future Dismounted Close Combat research program. At a later point an initial order of about a million rounds is expected to be"
"Callahan. Bruce Willis played Hartigan, the ""Dirty Harry of the story"", in the ""Sin City"" (2005) film. This 1985 film featuring Jackie Chan was Chan's second American feature film. The movie was noted for being similar to the ""Dirty Harry"" series, with inspiration taken therefrom by director James Glickenhaus. Directed by and co-starring Clint Eastwood; the film features an aging, tough cop who partners with a rookie cop, played by Charlie Sheen. Upon the film's release critics and audiences noted the similarities between Eastwood's two characters. Eastwood returned to acting after a four-year self-imposed hiatus in this 2008 film, which"
"Dirty (film) Dirty is a 2005 American crime drama film directed by Chris Fisher. The film stars Cuba Gooding Jr. and Clifton Collins, Jr. The film was released in the United States on November 9, 2005. Officer Armando Sancho (Clifton Collins, Jr.) is a former Mal Creado (""badly created"") gang member who is forced to choose between his conscience and his loyalty. Recruited into an undercover, anti-gang unit of the LAPD, Sancho brings his street smarts onto the force that he has sworn to protect. With his partner Salim Adel (Cuba Gooding Jr.), the two patrol LA's streets the only"
"along with her sister, was gang-raped a decade before the story takes place and seeks revenge for her sister's now-vegetative state by systematically murdering the rapists. The line ""Go ahead, make my day"" (uttered by Eastwood during an early scene in a coffee shop) has been cited as one of cinema's immortal lines. It was quoted by President Ronald Reagan in a speech to Congress, and used during the 1984 presidential elections. The film was the second most commercially successful of the ""Dirty Harry"" films, after ""The Enforcer"", earning $70 million. It received very positive reviews, with many critics praising"
"Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. After achieving success in the Western TV series ""Rawhide"", he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's ""Dollars"" Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five ""Dirty Harry"" films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. For his work in the Western film ""Unforgiven"" (1992) and the sports drama ""Million Dollar Baby"""
"the sidewalks—is clad in costly polished or rough carnelian granite. A restaurant, the ""Carnelian Room"", was on the 52nd floor. The elevator to this restaurant is one of the few publicly accessible high-speed elevators in San Francisco. The restaurant closed at midnight New Year's Eve 2009. In 1971, 555 California Street, then just two years old, appeared at the beginning of the film ""Dirty Harry"", where it is the roof from which Scorpio snipes a woman in the now-closed pool atop what is now the Hilton Financial District hotel on Kearny Street. The film shows panoramic views of San Francisco"