What is Your Favorite Dirty Harry Movie? And guns used in it?

Favorite Dirty Harry Movie?

  • Dirty Harry

    Votes: 42 64.6%

  • Magnum Force

    Votes: 15 23.1%

  • The Enforcer

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Sudden Impact

    Votes: 7 10.8%

  • The Dead Pool

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    65
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Magnum Force for both the suppressed Python carried by Hutch,
and the carrier scene where Callahan puts the 29 around the corner and touches one off.
I was always impressed with the staged recoil Clint gave.
John Milius probably had input on that.

The Police range competition shooting scenes were pretty good too.

JT
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Or was Harry Callahan really Josey Wales' great-great -grandson?

Aside from the revolver lore, let's not forget the Dirty Harry movies were social commentary, just like any other suspense-thriller motion picture of the post-VN era. In this case, the fear of an emerging police state with super-cops who were more trigger-happy, civil-rights-busting semi-criminals themselves than the more "woke" civil-rights, social justice warriors they persecuted. It wasn't a gun movie, folks. :(
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And look at San Francisco now......
 
I lived in the Bay Area in the early '80s. Vibrant gun culture there, a couple awesome gun clubs in the East Bay, but a great (and famous) gun shop in The City itself. (Sad to see what's happened to a great part of California)

Bloodwork (for the 627 8-shooter) was great. I saw some of the filming of Dead Pool (and kinda had a crush on Sandra Locke left over from The Gauntlet -- great Model 66 snub action).

But yeah, the first flick was the best, but Magnum Force made the guns even more famous.

I watch 'em all when they come on the movie channels (even though I own the boxed set on Blu-Ray).
 
My love of vintage Smith & Wesson revolvers came from my father, who carried a couple as a cop IRL "back in the day", as they say. That being said, the Dirty Harry movies certainly didn't hurt my interest, and only further encouraged it. They're great "revolver" movies, with plenty of nice vintage wheelguns, from the days when the revolver was still king, evident throughout the series. They also instilled in me a desire for the "Dirty Harry" gun itself -- the M29. Fast forward several years and now I have one, an early-70's vintage 29-2 with a 6.5 inch barrel. I do have to say that Sudden Impact got me interested in the Auto Mag pistol. Fast forward several years and now...
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I voted for the original movie, but it has been quite a while since I liked the Model 29. Once upon a time, I was a 29/629 fan, owned a 4” 629, and even carried it in my police duty rig for one year, March 1984 to March 1985, before I backed-down to a 9mm duty pistol, for half a year, to let my hand heal. (I believed in training with street-relevant ammo.) In late 1985, I shifted my attention to the .41 Magnum, carrying a Model 58 on and off the clock. By 1990, I finally admitted to myself that I had K/L/1911/GP100-sized hands, and was wrecking my right thumb, hand, and wrist by shooting too-big N-Frames with a compromised hold. Plus, I was more accurate, with guns that fit me, even when shooting powerful .357 Mags, through a K-Frame, that had far more recoil energy than mild .44 Specials fired from an N-Frame.

So, I really liked .44 Magnum, in the past, which makes my vote for the original movie a best choice, from that point of view, too.

Add me to the chorus of those who have mentioned The Outlaw Josey Wales movie, and the weapons in it. :)
 
Am I the only person in the USA who didn't like Dirty Harry?

His line in the first movie (paraphrased) really turned me off,,,
"If there's a gun present, I want to be in control of it."

Dirty Harry (as a character) was as crazed and maniacal as the perps he went after,,,
His only saving grace was that he echoed popular opinion of the time,,,
That the courts were too lenient on violent offenders.

Back in the 80's (when Eastwood was the Mayor of Carmel),,,
My father -in-law was the mayor of Paradise, California,,,
Yes, the town that recently burned to the ground.

Anyways my FIL met and spoke with Eastwood at several Mayoral conventions,,,
He said that Eastwoods personal opinions on gun owners were very anti,,,
He was in favor of much tighter restrictions for the USA.

Dirty Harry was a character,,,
Clint Eastwood was/is a 2A fraud,,,
This is just my not-so-humble opinion.

Aarond

P.S. To answer the original question though,,,
I was always enamored by the oh-so-sexy .44 Automag

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Dirty Harry was the best in my humble opinion. It's been so long since I've watched any of them the only gun I remember is the Model 29. I watch movies for entertainment and pretty well ignore what the actors opinions are in real life. If I watched only movies where the actors and I agree on everything my movie list would be very short.
 
doubleh said:
Dirty Harry was the best in my humble opinion. It's been so long since I've watched any of them the only gun I remember is the Model 29. I watch movies for entertainment and pretty well ignore what the actors opinions are in real life. If I watched only movies where the actors and I agree on everything my movie list would be very short.
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What an interesting coincidence! My movie list IS very short! I really miss the studio system sometimes. It kept the more vile attributes of actors out of the public sphere.
 
“Well, this is the 44 magnum Automag. It holds a 300 grain cartridge and if properly used it can remove the finger prints. “
 
S&W 44...meh. Ill take the MP40 the Scorpio Killer was using. :)

Since were talking cool, older movies, Ill take the S&W 76 Lee Marvin used in "Prime Cut" (Sissy Spacek was quite the hottie in that movie too:)) and Heston used in "Omega Man". :)
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
My favorite gun from "Dirty Harry," is the Winchester Model 12 the bank robber/bad guy (Albert Popwell) uses. A good shotgun is a good thing to have. :)
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He was a bank robber in DirtyHarry, a pimp in Magnum Force, the leader of the black militants in The Enforcer, and after he snuck up on Harry, again carrying a shotgun, in Sudden Impact he was revealed to be Harry’s partner Horace.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
What an interesting coincidence! My movie list IS very short! I really miss the studio system sometimes. It kept the more vile attributes of actors out of the public sphere.

I watch a lot of old westerns. The sound effects don't cover the talk up and those old actors kept their mouths pretty well shut about politics. I can over look 13 shot single actions and the silly stuff with lever action rifles. It's about the story for me.
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ApacheCoTodd said:
The book authors did not... the TV show let it slip a couple of times.

Todd.
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Ah, that doesn't count to me. If Parker didn't put it in a novel, then I think his first name is still a mystery. I hope Ace Atkins doesn't decide to do it, his Spenser novels have been disappointing enough.
 
The Last Outlaw said:
Ah, that doesn't count to me. If Parker didn't put it in a novel, then I think his first name is still a mystery. I hope Ace Atkins doesn't decide to do it, his Spenser novels have been disappointing enough.
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As I recall, it was tongue-in-cheek in the show so you don't know if Hawk was serious or maybe just messing with him.

Todd
 
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