Dirty Harry (character) AMP AutoMag built specifically for that film. In "Dirty Harry", he used a Winchester Model 70 bolt-action rifle in .458 Winchester Magnum for the night gunfight with the Scorpio Killer and used a switchblade during his second encounter with Scorpio. Harry also uses a Colt Python revolver to obtain ballistics evidence in "Magnum Force". Other weapons Callahan uses initially in the final climax of other films include a bomb, an M72 LAW rocket launcher and a harpoon gun. In "Dirty Harry" the San Francisco police chief comments on Callahan's fondness for overkill observing that he "likes an edge"; Callahan responds
Dirty Harry far a free, democratic society can go to protect itself. The original draft ended with a police sniper, instead of Callahan, shooting Scorpio. Another earlier version of the story was set in Seattle, Washington. Four more drafts of the script were written. Although Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood's signature role, he was not a top contender for the part. The role of Harry Callahan was offered to John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, and later to Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Burt Lancaster. In his 1980 interview with "Playboy", George C. Scott claimed that he was initially offered the role,