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) that "I'll take all the edge I can get". When Al Quan becomes Callahan's partner in "The Dead Pool", the inspector respects Quan's experience but does not want to work with anyone because, he says, "most of my partners end up in the hospital or dead"; he warns Quan to "get a bulletproof vest". It is a recurring theme in the "Dirty Harry" films that Callahan has a high turnover of partners; most are killed or wounded while working with him. In "Dirty Harry", he mentions two unseen partners named Fanducci and Dietrich; Dietrich is in the hospital having been