Dirty Harry novels of the four first "Dirty Harry" films as tie-ins. Author and screenwriter Phillip Rock wrote the novelization of "Dirty Harry" in 1971, based on an early draft of the script. Mel Valley wrote the sequel, "Magnum Force", in 1973. Wesley Morgan novelized "The Enforcer" in 1976. The "Sudden Impact" novelization was written by Joseph Stinson, one of the screenwriters. Stinson, who had rewritten the originally independent script as a "Dirty Harry" vehicle for Eastwood, adapted the novel in 1983. Following "The Enforcer", Eastwood announced that he would not make any further "Dirty Harry" films (he eventually returned to the role
Clint Eastwood in the 1960s Clint Eastwood in the 1960s In the 1960s, Clint Eastwood rose to fame in the Dollars Trilogy which would break him into mainstream cinema in the United States. In late 1963, a relatively unknown director Italian named Sergio Leone followed the advice of Claudia Sartori, an agent working at the William Morris Agency in Rome. He watched "Rawhide" episode 91, "Incident of the Black Sheep", dubbed into Italian. He concentrated on Eric Fleming's performance, but later admitted he was distracted by Eastwood's performance. Leone said, "What fascinated me about Clint, above all, was his external appearance. I noticed the lazy,