50 years of ‘Dirty Harry’: five notches off his 44 Magnum

Inspector Harry Callahan continued his expeditious, unfriendly and efficient methods on five films starring and produced by Eastwood. The tough hero was worn out, but the films were a brutal success and he ended up being the great icon of the policeman of the 70s and 80s.

Scorpio is an extremely sadistic psychopath who threatens to kill one person every day if the mayor of San Francisco does not pay him $ 100,000. And he adds that he will experience enormous pleasure in killing a priest or a black man. Faced with the clumsiness of the system, the expeditious and laconic Callahan decides to catch him following his own codes. Don Siegel, a close friend of Eastwood, directed the film with a steady hand: the opening sequence, with the murderer armed with a rifle with a telescopic sight that fires from the top of a building at a girl who bathes in the pool on the roof of another building, it is masterful. In David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’ Scorpio and the movie are quoted. Callahan equally solves a bank robbery using his Magnum Model 44 pistol as he rescues a suicide bomber from a ledge.

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‘Strong Harry’ (1973)

The script was started by John Milius, who left the project when the possibility arose to direct his first film, ‘Dillinger’. It was completed by Michael Cimino two years before Eastwood produced “A Loot of $ 500,000.” Four motorized police officers assassinate the judges who set the criminals free. Callahan may sympathize with his ideas, but he also owes himself to the system and fights against them.

‘Harry the Executor’ (1976)

In ‘Dirty Harry’, the character already scattered some of his ideas about hippy culture. In this third film, the most discreet of all, directed by James Fargo, Callahan faces a more or less hippy group of people who call themselves, in a bombastic way, the People’s Revolutionary Strike Force. Harry, who takes them as a joke, this time has the help of a female agent.

The darkest and most disturbing. Sondra Locke, then the actor’s partner, is a painter who takes revenge on the five men and the woman who raped her and her sister. Callahan understands it too. For the memory, the chase with Harry driving a minibus for retirees and the famous phrase that he says to a kidnapper: ‘Come on, make my day’.

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