Dirty Harry 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. The film drew upon the actual case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath. "Dirty Harry" was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films. It was followed by four sequels: "Magnum Force" in 1973, "The Enforcer" in 1976, "Sudden
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