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.
The Enforcer (1976 film) screenwriter Dean Riesner, who had worked on the scripts of "Dirty Harry" and "Coogan's Bluff", to do revisions. Recurring characters Lieutenant Bressler (Harry Guardino) and Frank DiGiorgio (John Mitchum) reprise their roles for the last time in a "Dirty Harry" film. Bressler was Callahan's boss in the first film of the series; DiGiorgio appeared in the previous two but dies in this film. A new character, Captain Jerome McKay (Bradford Dillman), was introduced as Callahan's superior officer. Dillman played a similar role, Captain Briggs, in "Sudden Impact". The character of Kate Moore, Harry's female partner, went to Tyne Daly. Daly's