“…uh uh I know what you’re thinking did he fire 5 shots or six? To tell you the truth in all this excitement I kind’a lost track my self, and being this is a .44 Magnum the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow your head clean off, you’ve just got ask you’re self one question ‘DO YOU FEEL LUCKY PUNK?’
Baby just give me that line again and again and again. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of hearing Clint Eastwood say it! The delivery and pitch is so perfect, the camera angles, ahhhh I WANT MORE!
Clint Eastwood stars in this classic film. It’s basically about Superintendent Callahan’s crusade against city red tape and public office officials. He prefers to do things his way. Obviously his way leads to some over zealous shootings, wanton destruction of public property and blatant contempt for any administration, but hey if you want the job done…
This is just the right platform for Clint to strut his stuff, look ridiculously cool and walk around with a small canon in his breast pocket, blowing bad guys away with magnum bullets and quick fire one liners!
The scene is San Francisco. The rooftops have been terrorised by a sick psychopath who likes to kill and kidnap women. Now he wants a ransom for the safe release of a girl. The city may pay it may not, it’s Dirty Harry’s call. When this film was released it caused quite a stir, critics called it reckless, and do-gooders saw it as the moral downfall of society. They were probably right, they didn’t like what they saw because it told the truth about society. No filmmaker had dared to be so liberal about civil disobedience, Don Seigel the Director used rapid fire editing and Eastwood’s 6.4” (6.6” with boots!) frame to give presence to the cinema. I have the original version of this film on video with the extra large Warner Brothers cover (bought from a closing video store around 15 years ago) at the back is a quote from Clint Eastwood about the film.
“The secret of the man I play is that he’s a super hero, a dream character for most men. A guy sits in the audience. He’s scared stiff about his life. He wants to be that self-sufficient legend he sees up there on the screen in my pictures. A super-human character who has all the answers, is doubly cool, exists without society, without anyone’s help. Of course, it will never happen that way.”
Clint went on to make several sequels to this film all playing the outspoken Dirty Harry, most of them are moody affairs and starring his ex-wife Sandra Locke. Clint often seems to have a desire to get beaten up, abused or trodden on before he always comes up the victor. This theme is often seen in his Westerns. I suppose the underlying message tells us. To get stronger you have to sink as low as you can take and then like a repaired broken bone, rise up stronger than before and capable of withstanding the pressures and torments of society and life.
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Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 1989 - Action/Adventure - Director: Rowdy Herrington - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Sam Elliott, Kelly Lynch
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
"Dirty" Harry Callahan was one of the first screen characters to embody contemporary fears ... more
about crime--and the uncompromising response to it that much of the audience would liked to have seen. Clint Eastwood's laconic rogue cop became an instant scree...
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Advantages: good role for Eastwood & direction from Don Seigal, thought provoking, good action Disadvantages: violence slightly stylised, poor picture/sound quality, feels dated
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Feb 26th, 2001
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