Clint Eastwood: Dirty Harry turns 80

Telegraph UK ^ | 2/3/10 | Will Lawrence

[Richard Kimball]

OTOH, wonder how much that gun's worth now, if he can prove it was the movie gun.

[Richard Kimball]

The movie Goldfinger made me chase blondes.

[Richard Kimball]

This is an AK 47, the preferred weapon of your enemy. It makes a distinctive sound when fired at you.

You shouldn't litter, Fagetti, it's ecologically unsound.

[Ken H]

"Clyde, scrap the Caddy."

[rabidralph]

An old shipmate of mine was a temp at Warner Bros., back in December, and I visited the area on business. She took me for a walking tour of the lots and showed me Eastwood’s office at the studio. Malpaso Productions, stenciled on the parking bumpers. It was a thrill just to be standing there. He was not at the studio because it was so close to Christmas.

[nomorelurker]

Heavy Metal version

Could do worse
I'm not a heavy metal fan but...

Metallica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJEAeRdgqKA&feature=related

[Kickass Conservative]

Makes me wonder too. I think the guy died a few years ago.

My Brother told me that the Gun was a Model 29, but he thought the barrel length was custom. It may have had a 6 or 7 inch barrel, instead of the 6 1/2 inch stock length like mine.

I think the guy got Five Grand to let them use the gun and they paid to get it fixed. LOL

Hard to believe that movie was made almost 40 years ago.

[markman46]

every which way but loose

right turn clyde

[tlb]

He was a contract player at Universal International. He and another young actor named Burt Reynolds were released from their contracts and left the studio on the same day. They were both fired by the same director.

Eastwood was fired when the director didn’t want to use him in a movie because “his Adam’s Apple was too big.” Reynolds, who was serving as a stunt man, was fired after he shoved the director into a water tank during an argument over how to do a stunt fall.

[DarthVader]

The 44 that was used in the movie was donated by John Milius to the NRA. It is at the National Firearms Museum at NRA, HQ in Fairfax, VA.

[DarthVader]

I use 240 grain Hornady JHPs. They will blow the head or any limb off.

[Richard Kimball]

Yeah. Time passes. When I watch that movie now, Eastwood almost looks like a baby face in it.

[Kickass Conservative]

Thanks for the info. I’ll see if that’s the guy he knew. It’s only been four decades or so. I’m getting very old...

[RckyRaCoCo]

Lieutenant Briggs: Suppose they panic and start shooting?

Harry Callahan: Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot!

[SpaceBar]

I’m enjoying reading all the various movie lines. It’s amazing just how many memorable quotes there are in Clint’s films.

[karnage]

“What’d you say your name was?”
“I didn’t.”

[karnage]

Escape From Alcatraz:

Butts: When’s your birthday?
Frank: I don’t know.
Butts: Geez, what kinda childhood did you have?
Frank: Short.

[Finny]

Good suggestion! I’ve always wanted to do that. And didn’t Joe Kidd have star Robert Duvall as the bad guy?

[SpaceBar]

Pale Rider is one of my favorites too.

[Bad Jack Bauer]

One of my favorite lines of dialog in any Clint movie is the scene in High Plains Drifter where the dwarf that the nameless gunifighter has elevated to the position of Mayor and Sheriff asks, "What about after we kill them? What do we do then?"

Clint spits, places his cigarillo in his mouth, turns his horse and says, "Then you live with it!"

High Plains Drifter was one of the darkest westerns I had ever seen since The Searchers