Dirty Harry replies, "Pal? They're already making movies about it." "Dirty Harry" helped popularize the Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver, chambered for the powerful .44 Magnum cartridge, and initiated an increase in sales of the handgun. In 2010, artist James Georgopoulos included the screen-used guns from "Dirty Harry" in his Guns of Cinema series. Notes Bibliography Dirty Harry Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action crime thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the "Dirty Harry" series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan.
Dirty Harry (film series) many reviewers, "Gran Torino" represents the final step in Eastwood’s repudiation of the Dirty Harry persona. If "Unforgiven" ends up being equivocal in its attitude toward violence and vigilantism, "Gran Torino" appears to accept the impotence of the lone, avenging hero" and that the impotence "is perhaps underlined by Walt’s repeated gesture of pointing his finger at villains as if it were a gun." Amy Biancolli of the "Houston Chronicle" said that though Walt, an "old fart", does not have the same name as Dirty Harry, "there’s no mistaking the rasp in his voice or the uncompromising crankiness of his