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 of the city, not as a place of moods but as a theater for action." Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times" called it "a high-style film with lowbrow appeal, a movie after which you may dislike yourself for liking it as much as you do." A section of the Philippine police force ordered a print of the film for use as a training film. Since its release, the film's critical reputation has grown in stature. "Dirty Harry" was selected in 2008 by "Empire" magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. It was placed similarly on