Eastwood is so elegant here, the hair, the tall, fat-free but not muscly physique, the smart but not showy clothes, and above all that easy unhurried walk. Class.
@@kevinmalone3210 the great character actor Albert Popwell. He went on to play the pimp in Magnum Force, Big Ed Mustapha in The Enforcer, and Harry's partner Horace King in Sudden Impact. Jaffee, the hot dog vendor (played by equally great character actor Woodrow Parfrey) was also an Eastwood favorite, appearing in The Outlaw Josey Wales(the snake oil salesman) and Bronco Billy.
I was 17, when this movie came out. Today, aged 68, I still enjoy Dirty Harry. A young, good looking Clint Eastwood. Great acting. Sadly, they don't make them like this any more.
It's funny, when I watch Gran Torino at the end when he's "shooting" all the bad guys I find myself coming back to this scene, dunno why. Greatest actor of my lifetime, I doubt there will ever be another like Clint.
@@PatrickOCnMD This movie (now) in a sense has CGI in it too, in as much that Warner Bros sadly have drenched it and the other DH movies in teal and orange grading, thus robbing it of its original color scheme. 🤢
Had? Why past tense? His most recent acting role was in Cry Macho released in 2021, and he is currently directing Juror No. 2 which he co-wrote. He is 93 now, but would you tell him to his face that his acting career is over?
@@LordZontar YUP! This and the over sugared coffee scene in Sudden Impact are my favorites ! ;) Harry never really gets to enjoy his dining experiences.. :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qoXDzsuqXFg.html
Holy cow!! I was 24 years old when this movie came out, and I have watched it over the many years since. Love it! But....I never recognized "Play Misty for Me" on that theater marquee. Whoever thought of that deserves a commendation: Clint, the producer, or the director! Many thinks for pointing that out!
Yeah, I was going to mention that when I saw that clip two years ago and the phone call interrupted me and now I saw it again and saw also that you saw that as well. I got a good grin on my face when I saw that on the marquee! :-)
Loved how they made sure Inspector Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is still chewing on that first bite of his hot dog through most of shooting, details like that are what make good old movies "GREAT" and that smile-snicker at the end when he pulls the trigger and no shot is fired is classic.
I love how Harry delivers the line almost amused in this scene, while he later delivers it to Scorpio with absolute venom. It just shows how personal things got with Scorpio and how badly he wants him dead.
I've noticed that in pretty much all his movies, either western or the Dirty Harry flicks, Clint Eastwood carries his revolver like a carpenter carries a claw hammer or a lumberjack carries an axe. It's a tool, and nothing but a tool. Every other actor waves his gun around like a magic sword. Clint just lets it hang from the end of his arm; as an extension of his arm. An exception might be James Garner in his westerns.
Just like all tools it takes training to use a revolver remember in the old west they used em for duelling fun fact the first revolvers made wear pre civil war and the first law enforcement agency to use them was the Texas Rangers they wear made by Colt
dion woollaston I live in Arizona and contrary to popular belief, there wasn't much dueling with pistols. None of this fast draw stuff. Guys just shot it out. And believe it or not, most men carried their pistol in their coat pocket. Out of sight. No holster hanging off the hip. That was called "a Spanish Rig" and it was for show-offs. For sissies. The reason why the gun was hidden in the coat pocket was that it was considered murder to shoot an unarmed man - even in the West. Most guys shot each other from ambush. And usually outside of town. Pick him out of the saddle with a carbine. Lots of quarrels were settled that way. Actually, no different than the Mob used to do.
They should have a trigger warning though. The shootings are ok but there are scenes of explicit car exhaust pollution. There were some shockers in the older cars.
@@Marvin-dg8vj that is an interesting observation Marvin!!! Yes, the older cars might have put some pollutants out, but nowhere near as bad - as a single nuclear powerplant accident which will be even more probable with the electric cars that these so-called 'green' people are trying to ram down our throats... Chernobyl, Fukushima , Goiania, Lucens, Kyshtym, Andreev Bay, Chazhma Bay, K-19 sub..... Compared to these polluters, the vehicles producing some smoke is really no big deal, as more accidents and the extremely long term after-effects in an extremely wide-spread area will result with electric vehicles , as several more nuclear powerplants will surely be built to support them....
@@lifted_above I believe there is usually someone on a movie who s charge of "continuity", i.e. to avoid the very thing you mentioned. But yeah, they miss a lot of things in my experience. Sometimes it's even the camera angle. There's also a chance to catch this stuff in 'editing and post', so maybe some directors don't want to re-do a whole scene, and just cross their fingers hoping no one will notice. HA!
Want to have fun ? Shoot at old style Coca-Cola bottles with a S&W model 29, Safely of course ! I had the greatest fun with a customized S&W model 15 combat masterpiece, chambered for .38 special, everyone thought it was a Model 29, lol
This is a classic. I used to never like the old Clint Eastwood films, but grew to like the more recent ones. Buth the Dirty Harry ones are now some of my favorites. Good storyline, good acting, good everything. Not like the garbage coming out of Hollywood today.
It's not all garbage by any means Killers of the flower moon, openheimer just to name a couple plus there are some great shows on cable Tokyo vice for one and I'm not some young guy I'm 78
I've seen plenty movies 🎬 through the year's and will continue; but this is still my All Time Favorite Movie 1971 "DIRTY HARRY". Never grows old for me. I watched this movie about a zillion times and still catch something that I never noticed before.
Depends on what you mean, Justin. In terms of cinematic artistry, probably not. But in terms of a Top-5 iconic scene ever? ABSOLUTELY. Hell, I think it could be THE most iconic movie scene ever, to be honest. The day Clint passes on (which I hope isn't for many years still), the news reports will have the 44 mag scene as the preferred lead-in.
StudSupreme And the other four... 1. Wolverine pops out his CGI claws and slices the bathroom sink in half (the theater went wild with hysterical laughter when I saw this LOLAMFAOROFL!!) in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." 2. Hulk has existential crisis while staring at a sand dune in "Hulk." 3. Megatron is resurrected in "Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen." 4. "Daddy would you like some sausage" from "Freddie Got Fingered."
I remember skipping school to see this. I was a senior in high school so my friends and I considered it a ‘senior skip day.’ Good times. We could still smoke in the theater too.
@@sentero1856 everyone feels like times used to be simpler. They always have and they always will. Just find the stuff that future kids will envy, and do it.
I still remember being 12 years old watching this movie at The Broadway Theatre in Portland Oregon where I was raised. My mom came down after I watched it 3 times and dragged me out by the ear. I was a Portland cop for 35 years and had the time of my life thanks to Harry.
What has happened to San Francisco? I went there in there 1990's and could not stand all the homeless people and crime. But that was virtually zero compared to what has happened to California since then. Dirty Harry San Francisco was wonderful until the Dems wasted the place. It is so sad.
Took me a lot of views over the years to realize that when he walks into and out of the eatery the theater in the background had "Play Misty for me" on it! Great plug!! This is still one of my all time favorite movies!!
Love Don Siegel's direction in this sequence--a non-chalant opening followed by a burst of action that isn't cut from 100 different angles every .001 seconds. You can tell what's going on and it's intense.
He's been laying there bleeding. I doubt he would have enough energy to grab the gun and shoot him. OK, so the gun is empty. Does that prevent Dirty Harry from kicking the weapon out of his grip? And maybe using the wrong end of the gun on the side of his head? The man's good sense warned him in time before he did something stupid.
infinitecanadian key word is "most" ppl. Not everybody acts the same when injured, especially if your body is kicking in adrenaline you basically feel numb then pain.
Only problem is this. The reboot would have huge SJW, BLM hidden political agendas all through it. And it would definitely paint gun owners & cops as merciless killers with an anti-2A vibe to it
So you are in favor of more of this? Hong Kong is the high life compared to the slums in Brazil, China, India, etc.. So what's your genius solution Fuber? www.thesun.co.uk/news/3528156/hong-kongs-miserable-coffin-homes-are-so-tiny-the-un-says-they-are-an-insult-to-human-dignity/
Mitchell Pak in the movie If you really look at it close the firearm he's using is not the Model 29 Smith & Wesson it is a similar model 57 which shoots the 41 caliber magnum both guns compared to them side-by-side look identical in size and weight.
@@XwaD666 the up close shots yes you can see the 44 Magnum lettering but I believe that for most of the time it was the model 57 that was being used for the shooting scenes and I also have these two models the Model 29 and the model 57 you look at them side-by-side they're identical in size and in weight .
You can feel the heat of that warm summer day. Love the way he just casually goes about the business still chewing his hot dog. Todays actors don’t even come close to 1% of his coolness. As a kid wanted to be like him.
I also felt the summer with all it’s memories during that specific time of the day , while he walked to the bank, sad that seems that summer joy disappeared these years
Showing Play Misty For Me at the movie theater as he's walking in , the best classic scene ever. The look on his face as he takes a bite of his hot dog and the bank alarm sounds. They don't make movies like this anymore ! 😊
That wasn't Clint's call. Though maybe a suggestion. Dirty Harry, at least part of it, was Clint's directing debut. The director was violently ill, or something, and Clint ended up directing the scene with the suicide jumper. That was the beginning of something great.
my old man and I and my brother were watching a dvd of this a few years back and after this scene my pop wanted to rewind the scene to see if he actually shot six rounds...he did ...and at the end when he was chasing Scorpio he shot only five....Clint loves his details...classic movie
Thanks for that detail pal! I have watched these great films so many times! Obviously he only shot five against 'Scorpio', cos he shot him with the sixth! But Great to see so many other fans of these films! dx
Eastwood had that chrisma that not one single actor today has....coupled with the film style, quality and that incredible Schifrin score makes this film for me the greatest cop movie ever....
Saw this movie as an 8 year old kid leaning over the front seat with my parents at the Winchester Drive-in theater in San Jose, Ca. Few years later we moved to a small town in the mountains and they bought a movie theater. I ran the projectors for 4 years throughout high-school. Loved this movie.
I come back to this scene and movie every so often and it just puts a smile on my face. Harry was my childhood hero and he still is after all these years. I thought more of him than I did Superman when it came out in the cinemas back in the day.
When I was growing up I had a great friend, Matt was his name, this was our favorite movie, I drove my mom crazy talking on the phone to him quoting that part and other parts. Those were great days, Matt left this crazy world in November, Rest In Peace my brother 🙏🙏
I just realized, after all these years, it was the same at the end. He didn't want to kill the bank robber guy, and he knew the guy would have the sense not to risk it. That's why he psyched the guy out instead of killing him. He did know that he had a bullet left with Scorpio, and he PSYCHED SCORPIO into drawing first so he could blow him away. What a great piece of storytelling.
Just noticed when he walks towards the diner you can see a cinema hoarding to the right down the street with an advert for the film play misty for me which is also a clint film...awesome
Awesome catch!! How many of us have seen this particular scene and never realized that! Play Misty for Me is one of my favorite Clint movies that never gets discussed.....Cheers
