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 Eastwood do what he does, and he does it so well." Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out four, calling it "very effective at the level of a thriller" but denouncing its moral position as "fascist." Gene Siskel gave the film a full four out of four stars and praised it as "one of the great police thrillers of motion picture history," though he too thought that the film's message was "dangerous." Roger Greenspun of "The New York Times" wrote that "what makes 'Dirty Harry' worth watching no matter how dumb the story, is Siegel's superb sense