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.
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism history of film criticism up to the present, the film introduces internet-based critics Harry Knowles of "Ain't It Cool News" and Karina Longworth, who wrote at the time for "spout.com". Gerald Peary says, ""For the Love of Movies" is the first feature documentary to tell the rich, colorful, and undeniably controversial story of the American film critic ... I had to sort of invent what I think is the history of film criticism, because there wasn’t any formally written book on it." Partly due to difficulties in getting financial backing, the documentary took nearly a decade to make. Peary says,