Dirty Harry (film series) as a car chase, barroom brawl, defusing bombs and "Feel Lucky" mode. Dirty Harry (film series) Dirty Harry is an American film series featuring San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan who is notorious for being extremely violent and ruthless in his methods, and a danger for any partner assigned to him. Actor Clint Eastwood portrayed Callahan in all five of the series' films. "Dirty Harry" (1971) was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan. Harry tracks serial killer Scorpio (loosely based on the Zodiac killer). Eastwood's iconic portrayal of the blunt-speaking, unorthodox
Dirty Harry (film series) on whenever the need arose". Manohla Dargis compared Eastwood's presence on film to "Dirty Harry" and the" Man with No Name", stating, "Dirty Harry is back, in a way, in "Gran Torino", not as a character but as a ghostly presence. He hovers in the film, in its themes and high-caliber imagery, and of course, most obviously in Mr. Eastwood’s face. It is a monumental face now, so puckered and pleated that it no longer looks merely weathered, as it has for decades, but seems closer to petrified wood." Tania Modleski, author of "Clint Eastwood and Male Weepies", said, "[f]or