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 (character) one film, Harry's partner Frank DiGiorgio, refers to Harry's gun as a "pocket-cannon". One of the "hero guns" used on-camera in "Magnum Force" is in the possession of John Milius. It is presently on loan to the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia, in the "Hollywood Guns" exhibit in the William B. Ruger Gallery. Callahan loses control of his sidearm four times during the course of the series. First, in "Dirty Harry" when Scorpio tells him to take it out and throw it when he is confronted at the cross in the park. Second, in "Magnum Force", where Captain Briggs