I understand That Mr.Eastwood as an actor and director is extremely loyal to the people that have worked for and with him , the technical staff and even the catering crew. A real American icon .Reading the credits of his movies you will see many of the same names repeatedly. I live in Santa Cruz , Ca. and got to watch a few movie scenes filmed downtown.thanks mr.eastwood for so many years of quality entertainment...From Rowdy Yates (Rawhide) in 1959 until today in 2021
@@randyelliott9152 If you look at the 2 comedy movies he made with the monkey, all of the bikers were in a lot of Clint's other movies, he kept a stable of good actors around him, as he knew those guys would do their job, and do it good. Those guys were equally adapt at playing a real scary creep or doing comedic roles as well. And those guys did other work as well, almost always with one or two more of them. 2 of the bikers were in Breakheart Pass with Charles Bronson, in that movie Ed Lauter and Robert Tessier also played a part, a few years later they all had guest actor credits in the Ateam series, except Charles, but in the Ateam episode where Robert Tessier plays his partner in crime is Albert Popwell. Also, the head biker from these 2 movies also played a part in an Ateam episode. Ed and Charles both played together again in Death Wish, and also in Death Hunt. All these guys are actors you know by face, but maybe not by name. Breakheart Pass was based on a novel the same author also wrote another book, on which the movie " Where Eagles dare" was based, costarring Clint Eastwood. Hollywood is a very small place apparently.
To Grymmorgan:Yes indeed! He got his start in the biz by none other than Sammy Davis Jr also a good friend of Clint's.Mr Popwell was a jazz/soul dancer alongside Mr.Davis.
I love Albert Popwell! He's been in every Dirty Harry movie (as different characters). I would have LOVED to have seen him in MORE projects as a Hero character versus a villain. :) Sad when he passed away. But he will live on in Classic Dirty Harry Movies.
Yes, Albert Popwell was great. He also played a baddie in 'Coogan's Bluff' which was a kind of precursor to the 'Dirty Harry' movies. Clint played the same type of character except that he was an Arizona deputy sheriff. Super film.
Two things I love about this scene; 1) An original Automag that cycles without jamming 2) The fact that in the US you can just drive out to some field somewhere and start shooting, and no one gives a f*ck....
Albert Popwell appeared in a few of the early Dirty Harry movies (the original, Magnum Force, the Enforcer, and Sudden Inpact). Another great actor from Clint’s ‘crew’ RIP Sir.
Albert Popwell, AKA Horace was also in Dirty Harry, Magnum Force and The Enforcer. The only Dirty Harry movie he wasn't in was The Dead Pool. He was offered a role in that too but couldn't do it because of prior commitment. One thing about Clint and his movies. He liked to use the same people as often as he could.
If I ever have a son he won't be allowed to watch TV, I'll give him a DVD player and a stack of Clint Eastwood movies, plus John Wayne, Rambo, old James Bond, Indiana Jones.
Ranger Whiskeybreath Don’t forget to teach him: Carpentry Framing & construction Basic Metal working Traditional archery Shooting Hunting Fishing Crabbing Clamming Gardening Woods running Martial arts Parkour So he can stay out of the cities, away from the idiots, well fed....
When Clint directs/produces movies, he is pretty loyal to some actors, some you will see in multiple movies like Horace in this one. I believe he was in 3 or 4 dirty harry movies, different roles in each, usually plays a criminal. He also does it with westerns, his every which way but loose movies, etc...
Albert Popwell was in Dirty Harry as a bank robber who survives but wounded and received the famous “Do ya feel lucky” line. Popwell was in Magnum Force as the pimp and killed off by one of the vigilante cops. He was Big Ed Mufusa in The Enforcer and finally a cop in Sudden Impact. He was in Clint Eastwoods Coogans Bluff in 1968
Most people don't realize the Auto Mag as a gun was a total failure. It had reliability issues with every load used in it. Still Harry Sanford, who owned Auto Mag when this came out gave Clint Eastwood a gun, even though the scene in the amusement park had to be reshot several times because the gun would jam and Clint would throw the thing in the water, where divers were waiting to go looking for it. On the other hand, the Wildey like Charles Bronson used in Death Wish 3 was ultra reliable as long as the loads were dialed in, a much better handgun and still made to this day.
Bayan1905 I totally get that some people would want this pistol for its collectible value. I am also drawn to rare, goofy, and obsolete cartridges myself. However, if I am going to spend money on a firearm like this, it damn well better be reliable.
Alot of failures! And you could not buy ammo for it. It was not 44 mag ammo. You had to cut .308 rifle brass an neck down to .44 to make it. Really not worth it pistols were also breaking due to excessive pressures
+Bayan1905 No wonder Kersey was such good friends with Wildey. Also, fun fact: The Wildey with Charles Bronson's personal sidearm which he kept for self defense.
Bayan1905 Guns like the automag are unreliable mostly due to user error, any given magnum pistol has a lot of recoil and you have to make sure all that force is being used to cycle the gun, if you don't, it will jam. But if you hold the automag - or any high caliber handgun for that matter - very firmly and with a straight arm it should be as reliable as any other pistol.
Augusto Vasconcellos while what you say is generally true of any autoloader, the Gera designed Auto Mag did indeed have function issues stemming from the short recoil design. Research Lee Jurras or Kent Lomont's work with the Auto Mag.
Got that right! I was with a group of friends in my teens and we were firing different weapons. Just for kicks I wanted to hear what's a 357 would be like without ear protection...bad mistake! When I fired the Mossberg 12-gauge pistol grip, my friend said don't try to be a hero... Ear protection on this bad boy! And he was very right!
Umm no, Horace got his throat cut by the bad guys who were after Harry, they also castrated the Bulldog Horace gave him. So Harry introduced them personally to the Automag. It was a short introduction.
44excalibur that is true Partner #1 got shot by the psycho with an MP40 and lived and then quit Partner #2 got shot while saving Harry and died Partner #3 got blown up by a mailbox bomb Partner #4 got his throat cut Partner #5 got blown up, along with Harry, by an RC car bomb but lived due to him following Harry’s advice by wearing a Kevlar vest, which protected him from shrapnel
@@Hakashi57 You mixed up partners #2 and #3. Partner #2 got blown up by the mailbox in Magnum Force. Partner #3 got shot saving Harry's life in The Enforcer.
As a Brit living in the UK, I haven’t seen a legally (or illegally) held handgun since I left the Royal Marines 45 years ago. It’s hard for many of us here to appreciate what Americans see in them. I do admire the craftsmanship and power though.
When you give up your right to bear arms, you become an easy target. It is hard for Americans to see why they would turn over the last possible means of defense to a government that will not protect the citizens.
Yes, firing a firearm without ears or eyes protection....interesting. Another thing is if you look at the car door window you can see the camera man and camera. This guy played the bank robber in Dirty Harry, the pimp in magnum force, Mustapha in the Enforcer, this character Horace King in Sudden Impact.
I seen one of these at a gun show last year.The guy that had it was wanting $3500 bucks and it was in a glass case so no one could pick it up and unless you were serious about buying he would not take it out.Also it looked a little different than what Clint has.You ever notice that in the Dirty Harry movies Clint always picked the same people to co-star with him?Also most of the westerns he had people from former movies.
Yep. In fact with the exception of the Dead Pool he appeared in the first four movies except for the Dead Pool considering that he didn't appear in that one at all.
Even seeing this scene as a kid, I knew it was dumb. Horace's shotgun would do about 10X the damage to a human over Harry's "auto-mag", which more than likely would have jammed after the first shot fired.... Hollywood silliness.
the real goal was penetration of an armored limosine. the shotgun would need solid slugs, and you can't carry it under a jacket and still have a barrel long enough for accuracy
@@schallrd1 I can imagine the kicking Harry would have got from the Feds for exposing their deep penetration operation. Probably took years of growth off his scalp.
I remember my dad had an Auto Mag. The quality was terrible. But, looks fantastic in this movie! A much better gun that we had was the .45 win mag LAR Grizzly.
It's pretty rare now. Occasionally AMC automag's will show up in collections or on one of the auction sites, But I don't see them for sale very often at all. At the time that Sudden Impact was made, the production run had finished, so they obviously weren't nearly as rare as they are now. But now, they're pretty rare.
I've shot a 6" barreled .454 casul revolver one handed with a 300 grain bullet. It's really not that bad. It won't fly out of your hand or anything. Just takes a firm grip.
It’s unlikely that after shooting a shotgun and that magnum, either one of them could hear each other talk over the ringing in their ears- still, I love the scene
KFC´s Gravy Jamming mostly due to limp wristing, its a comon problem with large caliber semi autos, but yeah, that gun did have a SERIOUS case of uncommon parts.
Ive shot a 44 mag Winchester 1894AE lever action. Beautiful gun. Ive shot a Israeli 44 mag desert eagle, was practical at all, jammed after every shot. Ive shot a colt andaconda in 44 mag, the smoothest single action trigger pull ever.
Funny how "Horace" was the "bank robber" in Dirty Harry, then " Mustafa" in Magnum Force... .44 magnum automag... even after all these years I still want one!
the .44 automag are as rare as hens teeth, not much chance of ever getting one, plus you would pay a fortune for one if you ever did find one. Still a very cool handgun.
Nobody that is a friend would walk up behind you when you have a weapon & they have a weapon, he would have hollered from a distance " hey Harry", walking up quiet behind him would be stupid, but hey, it's a movie.
Harry Callahan! The man. That Automag is almost as awesome as him. Great cop. Great movies from the spaghetti westerns up til today. Love Clint Eastwood. Him and Bronson would have made a hell of a team.
The problem with shooting paper targets in movies is the entrance hole always looks like the exit hole due to the squibs they use for the effect. I wonder if they could set up some sort of vacuum tube to suck a slightly perforated "hole" and make it look cleaner? Just a thought.
Other cqrtridges developed was .41AM, .357 AM by Lee Jurras also. Col Cooper 's schetch for " Thumper" was based around ,the cartridge .44AM in a semiauto carbine,
jcraigb funny thing is that in the first Dirty Harry movie they used that same actor to play a bank robber (the first person to get the "do you feel lucky" line, and in the third movie he played a militant group leader that Harry gets information from, and finally in this (the fourth Dirty Harry movie) he plays a cop. Clint sure did love using his regulars (buddies) in his movies back then.
I checked out the .44 auto mag., ammo is ridicously priced, if you can find it, & there are a lot of problems with jamming on the ejection of empty shell casings, if you want one, buy a desert eagle mage in Israel, they make a .357, .44 mag & 50 cal autos, top notch quality
This video is too blurry, but at 0:18 - 0:21 when Horace opens the car door, you can see the camera and cameraman in the wing window. I always wondered how anyone missed it because it was so clear in the movie.
halburd1 Clearly you've never shot a gun before. Shooting any gun without ear protection can fuck with your hearing especially something like 44 automag.
I shot a Glock 19 without ear protection. Only shot one mag, didn't get my hearing back for a good 2 weeks. Never again am I shooting with naked ears, sure it looks cool as hell, but hearing is important man!
Mercifully, Mack Bolan was an U.S. Army trained armorer amongst other MOS’s. Advanced gunsmithing skills were needed with the Automag. It was an entertaining plot device. Big game pistol used against murdering mafia thugs.
Albert Popwell as a pimp, a drug pusher and now a cop for Clint. Eastwood started him out as a would-be cafe robber in Dirty Harry. I love how Eastwood used the same actors in a great many of his movies. Believe me, Clint had the right to hire anyone after the successes of the spagetti westerns.
+Masculine Buddha Indeed, it's not even an argument . . . I'd take a 12-gauge shotgun ANY DAY over any handgun, regardless of the caliber. You can do just about anything with a 12-gauge choosing between a wide variety of loads ranging from simple birdshot, buckshot to deer slugs, and when you use 3" Magnum loads makes it even more impressive. A 12-gauge is the superior weapon of choice for those who know better...
Eastwood had a different gun here than any I have ever seen. This had to be a movie prop gun. The ones on the market (still collectors items) has 3 holes at the top of the barrel and the gun Eastwood used in the movie had 4 holes at the top of the barrel. I'm guessing the one used in the movie must have been one gun prop long barrel specially made for only for the movie cause NOBODY can seem to tell me exactly what company manufactured this gun presented here. I have never seen a longer 4 hole barrel 44 auto mag than the one presented anywhere but in the movie itself.
