Great reaction...just to let you know there are 5 Dirty Harry films in franchise...Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983) & The Dead Pool (1988)...all of them are excellent in my opinion...
One of the best cop movies that COULD NOT be made today. Scorpio is my favorite of Harry’s villains because the actor who portrays him, Andrew Robinson, played the best reoccurring character in all of Star Trek - Elam Garak. Check out the Dirty Harry sequels. The first three are all quite good.
Great choice, ' Escape From Alcatraz" is very good as are the Dirty Harry sequels. " Death Wish " 1974 is great too. Lots more political commentary on the apathy and correctness on crime and law enforcement at this time
Dirty Harry is almost as iconic as Eastwood's numerous Western roles. "Coogan's Bluff", "Kelly's Heroes", and "Play Misty for Me" are some other Eastwood classics you might enjoy.
I like Coogan’s Bluff almost as much as Dirty Harry. It’s very obvious that it’s made in the hippie era, and the idea about a cop coming to a completely different enviroment is always interesting. Kelly’s Heroes is great too, and I appreciate that you bring Play Misty for Me up since I rarely see comments about it. A pretty good movie with a believable plot.
It sure was. That's was my childhood setting in the late 1960's & 70's in the USA. Bleak urban decay with a borderline post apocalyptic feel. My 4 brothers and I considered it a giant playground and treated it as such. We had a happy childhood. We were like 5 little "Omega Men"!
Siegel was very profilic director in 50s and 60s make movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Killers (1964) or The Beguiled (1971). Work many times with Clint Eastwood (Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled and Escape from Alcatraz), they were friends and director going to be Eastwood mentor.
Each Dirty Harry film has a classic catchphrase. The 4th film "Sudden Impact"s' catchphrase became so popular that you couldn't drive anywhere without seeing it on at least one bumper sticker on a car in the 80's.
A true classic and the sequels are worth watching too. Another 1971 true life cop thriller The French Connection, is even better and cleaned up at the Oscars. Such a great year for movies!
The thing you have to remember about the dark shots is that film and video have different playback characteristics when it comes to low light shots. This movie was shot for sitting in a dark room, watching it on a big screen, not for watching on a flat screen in a well lit room. So it would have worked much better on the big screen than a little screen transfer.
@@seanrosenau2088 - "Formatted' usually means that the frame size has been changed to that of your DVD. It does not usually mean that the colour intensities have changed.
That's your own headcanon. In the '70s and specially the '80s the deep dark scenes during night were a plague and they were horrid to understand what the hell one was watching on screen, I hated it back then and it is still today plain bad filmmaking.
Just wanna say Shan, I enjoy watching your reactions. Your not trying to give editorials, reviews and endless useless banter. Your actually reacting and then giving thoughtful insights and research before and after. Good job. I am following you on the James Bond series. Best regards.
Another fantastic reaction with great insight from you! Andrew Robinson is an AMAZING actor who can do anything. He was so great in this role as the villain, he couldn't get work in any other kinds of parts, and rather than continue with the typecasting, he actually didn't do much film work ever again. He was great on a tv show called Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Not the best show until its later seasons, but his work was sooooo good. I wish he had a bigger film career.
Andrew Robinson is fantastic as Scorpio in this. He really makes you loathe him, which makes our support for Harry justified. Incidentally, I forget if you've mentioned seeing it or not, but you should watch Hellraiser if you haven't yet. Maybe come October.
Robinson is an amazing actor. On one movie he's a villain you loath, in another he plays a very likable dorky guy. He's also one of those great character actors who has graced Star Trek more than once.
@@Panzer4F2 Of course he was great storyteller also... Dr. Bashir: What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't? Garak: My dear Doctor, they're all true. Dr. Bashir: Even the lies? Garak: Especially the lies.
Probably one of the best cop movies made. Has a great plot, great music score, well known actors and a good ending. The badge throwing is just to say to the police, what's good the law when it can't save life. Loved the movie when I was able to watch it on VHS at home.
Originally Don Siegel wanted John Wayne to play Dirty Harry, but Wayne didn't like the script because of its violence and language although he later regretted it then made a not very good similar toned cop thriller called McQ. My favorite Don Siegel film is INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956). Siegel would later get Wayne for the excellent THE SHOOTIST, Wayne's last film.
Wayne also made the dubious “Brannigan” set in London with Richard Attenborough. Thought that was his last film? Fun fact, in Brannigan John Wayne pushes a very young Tony Robinson (Aka Baldric) into the Thames.
@@andrewdoubtfire4700 One thing I appreciate about "Brannigan" is that the film had John Wayne's character have a fatherly sort of relationship to his female partner rather than a more cliched romantic relationship.
Frank Sinatra was also considered for the role . I think sometimes the actors that aren't the directors 1st choice ! turn out to be the one's "perfect" for the characters . Example Eastwood in Dirty Harry , Donald Pleasense Halloween , and Robert Shaw Jaws . None of them were who the directors wanted first pick . But can't imagine any other playing them as well .
A quick recommendation: As a big Clint Eastwood fan, I think one of the best movies I've seen him in was his last project: Gran Torino. He directed it and stars in it. At almost 90 years old, He's still got it.
I'm glad you enjoyed this it's one of my favourite films. There are 4 more films after this where Eastwood plays Dirty Harry. Andrew Robinson who played the killer is a fantastic actor and has gone on to play a number of memorable roles, often characters who are psychotic.
Don Siegal started working in 1940's Warner Bros. movies doing the montage sequences for other directors movies. You can see his name on opening credits for many of the films including "Casablanca". At the end of the 40's through the 50's he got to direct "B" movies which lead to his career lasting until the 80's. He does an acting cameo in Eastwood's directorial debut "Play Misty For Me" as a bartender. Eastwood names him and Sergio Leone as his mentors for becoming a director.
I binge watched them one weekend and had a great time. After so many years I can recognize the same people appearing in each movie. It's almost like a bunch of friends get together for a few days with a camera, and then it gets edited to make a story. Looks like a lot of fun actually.
Yeah,that Warner logo was from a period when The Kinney Company owned the studio.Most home video versions replaced it with whatever the current version is,so it's always nice to see it pop up.
11:23 That scream is awesome :D Andrew Robinson was really good in this role. 15:57 Great how he immediately is like oh shit. Callahan really put fear in him. 16:45 Hahaha :) 17:19 I like how in that scene Harrys face turns from angry to like peaceful when he knows that the creep will go for the gun.
Andrew Robinson was brilliant as Scorpio and was that good he apparently actually received death threats from people who thought the character was real ! My favourite dialogue is the speech Harry gives about not remembering how many bullets he has left and which finishes with the immortal lines " do you feel lucky.......well do you punk ?" the first time he uses it is on the bank robber where he is almost smiling and it is a bit of a joke , but then at the end of the film he delivers the same line to Scorpio and his hatred shines through as this was a guy who had killed four people including a police officer and a child and had kept a girl hostage and killed her and was prepared to blow up a bus full of children .
When Dirty Harry came out, it really changed the way cop movies were made and seen and thus, its cinematic influence cannot be overstated. Of course the story is completely fictional, the only part based on reality was that there was a Zodiac killer and he did send letters to the police though he never has been caught (for a great movie on the Zodiac killer, see Zodiac by David Fincher). There is 4 more Dirty Harry, they're not as iconic as the first one but they're not bad, the best of the bunch being 1983 Sudden Impact which has the famous line: "Go ahead, make my day." Dirty Harry has become an integral part of pop culture, in Naked Gun, when Frank Drebbin says: "When I see 5 weirdos in togas stabbing a man in front of a hundred people I shoot the bastards, that's my policy." it's a direct reference to this movie. A word about Andy Robinson, who plays the unhinged Scorpio killer (a clear reference to the Zodiac Killer), for years he could not get roles that were not in the mold of his portrayal here because he gave such a convincing performance that he was typecast, which is sad. He got the lead role in the horror thriller Hellraiser in 1987 and has had many different roles since but for years his career was impaired because people could only see in him Scorpio.
In ‘76, Siegel directed John Wayne in The Shootist. It was Wayne’s last picture, which was about the end of a man and the end of an era. It makes a good double feature with John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) with Wayne, and James Stewart (also in the Shootist).
The first 3 sequels are solid and worth watching but probably not up to the same level as this one (haven't seen the last one in many years but I did enjoy it at the time). Since you're watching Bond, Eastwood did a fairly Bond-like movie/character in the 70's called The Eiger Sanction. As for Don Siegel, I highly recommend the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). While the 78 remake is quite good, the original still works extremely well, in part since the story isn't reliant on many special fx.
You have the most interesting reaction channel. The fact that you watch these older films and provide such grounded insights is a rarity. You are so underrated!
25:06 - I also like the score composed by Lalo Schifrin. This Agentinian pianist and compores many popular movies from 60s and 70s like Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, THX 1138, Enter the Dragon and The Amityville Horror.
An 80s TV show called Sledge Hammer! spoofed the Dirty Harry movies, in pretty entertaining fashion, for two Seasons. Sometimes the jokes are so specific, that the show was much more rewarding for fans of Dirty Harry, instead of the casual viewer. The Pilot episode, 'Under The Gun', is recommended, and I like a later episode, 'Jagged Sledge', where the spoofing includes courtroom movies, like Jagged Edge. Some episodes are funnier than others, but David Rasche's performance as the Dirty Harry-esque character stays strong throughout.
Sledge Hammer starred David Rasche, who I thought played a terrific, memorable character in Eddy Murphy's "Best Defence" movie. Shame the series never caught on. Perhaps it was too clever ?
@@mitchellbeston1033 so did I. The real shame was that it was just so good,why was it such a brief series? David Rasche was just brilliant,as were his co-stars.A very under-rated series.
Great reaction as always! Check out all the Dirty Harry movies, because they're all great. Also more Clint Eastwood : Kelly's Heroes, Play Misty For Me, Any Which Way You Can, Any Which Way You Loose, and Coogan's Bluff! BTW, I love that old typewriter you got there next to the guitar!
The darkness was hard to overcome back then. Remember, this was the 1970s, and the cities were not completely lit up with orange sodium lights. Same thing with the shaky camera. A man had to mount the camera on the shoulder to get those shots.
Dirty Harry Callaghan is definitely one of cinema's greatest anti heroes. There's also 4 sequels to this classic. I would recommend them all. Just pure escapism entertainment.
The Zodiac and Zebra killings were happening at this time in San Francisco and the US Supreme Court had just handed down the Miranda v Arizona decision in 1966 and the lower courts and the legal system were just coming to grips with what it meant (in fact, the reading of "Miranda" warnings wasn't universal). The people catching and beating up Harry as a peeping Tom harkens back to San Francisco's days during the Gold Rush when the city had no real law enforcement and vigilante justice ruled. So the viewer is left to wonder about A. Law Enforcement vs. B. Taking the law into your own hands in the face of maniacs and no defense from government.
Early career role for the 'Zodiac killer' actor Andrew J. Robinson, who's also Garak from Star Trek Deep Space Nine and the 'And Jesus Wept' guy from Hellraiser.
Great reaction and review! One of my all time favorite movies! Thank you, Shan! The sequels are all very entertaining and well worth a watch. Looking forward to more of your videos, as always.
Shan, first-time screenwriter Shane Black initially intended Lethal Weapon to be a much darker ‘urban western’, inspired by Clint Eastwood’s iconic Dirty Harry. You can tell this from similarities between the 2 films, like the new partner given to the veteran cops and especially how similar the 2 suicide jumper scenes are. There are 4 sequels and they are all worth watching IMHO so would enjoy seeing your reactions to them.
Don Siegel was an excellent director. He had a long history in Hollywood during the classic era as an editor and 2nd unit director. Siegel directed the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the 50s.
@@ernesthakey3396 Strip the Caddy Clyde. Clint, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland all starred in the greatest WW2 bank heist movie too. Woof Woof.
I love films from the late sixties to mid seventies; very gritty and an astonishing number of classics were made. Considered the second golden age of Hollywood.
You may have noticed both Eastwood and Andrew Robinson both did their own stunts. The bus scene and Robinson back diving into the river. Robinson was also given permission to improvise in scenes by the director. The scene in the park, Robinson says "My, that's a big one" to Harry's 44 was his own line not in the original script. There are 1 or 2 interviews on TH-cam of Robinson you should check out. Both Andrew Robinson and Bruce Dern are some of the only actors I know of that have received death threats for iconic roles especially Dern for his bad guy villain in The Cowboys (1972) that even to this day, people still give Dern hell for it. That's all I have to say except, again good reaction as always, enjoy, and have fun!
The hotel with the swimming pool shown at the start of the film was a Holliday Inn back then. In the late 70's and early 80's I would rent a top floor room on New Year's Eve. It was the top floor because it was the only floor with balconies. Of course, I always chose the Bay Side for the view. Below were thousands of people celebrating the new year. That hotel is no longer Holliday Inn. It is located on the edges of Chinatown and the Financial District. As for the film, "Zodiac," I really liked how the showed the progress of the building of the Transamerica Pyramid as time passed. It was in 1972 that I moved from the Midwest to the San Francisco Bay Area. I have never regretted it.
Great reaction review, I really enjoy the Dirty Harry series and I hope you will continue with the rest of the Dirty Harry movies. Dirty Harry is one of my favorite movie cop characters. Did you notice the suicide jumper scene is reimagined in Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson?
I love Dirty Harry. It’s a classic for me now. Yeah Clint always plays a man of few words. It’s not really based on the Zodiac killer (there are a few similarities). Clint loves jazz and often has it in his movies. I love his loner cop. I want him on my side for sure. Escape from Alcatraz is well worth watching. It’s well done. Good reaction Shan. 😀
Just starting this vid. It may already have been mentioned, but Eastwood again plays Harry Callahan in Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden impact, and The Dead Pool. Plays similar but distinct cop characters in Tightrope and The Rookie.
Shooting at night before digital cameras required LOTS of artificial lighting. Big productions, like Terminator 2 for example, use huge stadium style flood lights on towers to create enough light. That is expensive and time consuming so shooting day for night used to be very common. DH was filmed on location with a small budget using relatively primitive technology. Plus Segal was going for a naturalistic look.
Dirty Harry set Eastwood up as a non-Western icon, but let’s not forget his more comedic efforts. Michael (The Deer Hunter) Cimino wrote and directed Eastwood and Jeff Bridges in the fun romp Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), which includes a lot of Eastwood’s film buddies, like Geoffrey Lewis.
This movie was made during a time when crime was literally out of control in the US. In fact there were several active serial killers in California alone around this period. People were scared to walk down the street at night & this movie reflected that well. There wasn't alot of public sympathy for criminals in those days (unlike today). People just wanted results & Callahan embodied that sentiment. The killer's rights seemed to take precedence (like today) over the victim's. That, I think, is why this movie and character resonated so much with audiences.
@@riggo8219 It had just occurred to me that when there's a crisis happening, that movies being released during that time reflect what people are thinking. So, what movie genres are being released currently? Or current movies want us to be thinking a certain way.
@@AneudiD78 Obviously, everything is political these days. But, while older films would tend to reflect what was happening in society, newer movies seem to be about steering society in a certain direction (left). Filmmakers these days tend to disregard actual problems for manufactured ones. For instance, China is not a threat to the world, but climate change is going to kill us all.
The actor who plays the part of Scorpio (Andrew Robinson), Clint Eastwood saw him on a stage play, and he thought he would be the perfect part for the character. Andrew was very anti-gun and he had no experience in handling guns at all. He had to be trained on handling guns for the filming. He was not comfortable with the prop guns on the movie set. Also after 'Dirty Harry' was released, Andrew was receiving threatening phone calls from people because they thought his character Scorpio was real. Even when he changed his phone number a few times he would still receive threatening phone calls. Eventually it stopped. Good reaction Shan!
Fistful of Dollars 1964 (Clint's first Spaghetti Western) changed the way Westerns were filmed. It's based on the famous Japanese Samurai film 'Yojimbo'. Spaghetti Westerns were mostly filmed in Spain with Italian directors with mostly Euro casts most of them Italians and Spaniards but other Europeans and some Americans like Clint and Lee Van Cleef.
The famous line was used twice to expand upon Harry's range of emotions. The first was a playful taunt. The second from a place of anger and frustration. The film is very loosely based on the Zodiac Killer, who did allegedly see the film which he remarked about in a letter. Dirty Harry is my all-time favorite Eastwood flick. The film has been panned by some critics as being a fascist's wet dream, but I see it more as a commentary on America's judicial system and how messed up it is. There are four other films in the Dirty Harry franchise. Magnum Force, a must see, The Enforcer, an okay film, Sudden Impact, another great film, and Dead Pool, which is the worst of the bunch. Definitely all worth a see.
Kezar Stadium was the stadium they were at in the movie. Very legendary stadium and still there in San Francisco, remodeled in the late 80s or early 90s and still well and running now.
just noticed the cinema sign before Clint walked into the coffee shop just before he had the shoot out with the bank robbers. it was Play misty for me!
Gosh, I have watched this movie so many times and remains one of my favorite Eastwood classics. Great movie! by the way, you're gonna love Million Dollar Baby.
I only just realized watching this, that when Harry was going for coffee just before the "Do you feel lucky?" scene, there was a cinema in the background that was showing 'Play Misty For Me'. That was the first film that Clint Eastwood directed, and was in cinemas in 1971. Also noticed for the first time that the actor playing the mayor of San Francisco also appeared with Clint Eastwood in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' in 1976, also directed by Clint.
Dirty Harry was one of the three movies from late 60. and early 70. (Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The French Connection) which changes police drama (or we can say crime thrillers) showing uncompromised cops. They fought dirty, using violence methods like sheriffs from Old West and wasn't in any political agendas or in someone pockets. Callahan is the most recognizable from all three movies. Still impressing stuff.
Harry and Bullitt were based on real life SFPD detective Dave Toschi, portrayed by Mark Ruffalo in Zodiac, and namesake of Toschi Station in Star Wars.
Did you see in the background that “Play Misty For Me” was playing in the theater? Never noticed that before. Shan you should DEFINITELY watch that one!!!! It’s the original Fatal Attraction! SO GOOD!!!
The Dirty Harry sequels are all worth the watch. Eastwood is one of the best actors and directors of all time. You would be hard pressed to find a bad Eastwood movie. Movie trivia: after the robbery scene you see a theater sign with the movie Play Misty For Me(1971) on it. Eastwwood's first movie that he directed and starred in. Worth watching as well. Also if you are a Star Trek fan the killer (Andrew Robinson) plays a character in Deep Space 9 that I think is one of the best Star Trek characters in the franchise. He played others in some of the other series but that one stands out. A very well developed and interesting character named Garak. Robinson has played many roles in many very popular tv shows in the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s which why he seems so familiar. Shows like Bonanza, Kojak, A Team, DS9, JAG, X Files and many others.
Albert Popwell who plays the bank robber in this movie was also involved with other Dirty Harry movies: 1976's The Enforcer as militant and 1983's Sudden Impact as Harry's detective colleague.
The Dirty Harry character is what made me a top Clint Eastwood fan. I was in high school around that time. My friend and I would watch everything he did. Incidentally, Andy Robinson (Scorpio-and who is best known for his recurring role in Deep Space 9) read the script before shooting began. He told Don Seigel that the script described Scorpio as a huge man with a shaven head. He said he wasn't right for the part. Seigel told him he was perfect. He wanted Scorpio to look like a choir boy, not a brute. Dirty Harry #3 The Enforcer, is my favorite movie of the series.
On a weird note: It's fun to compare and contrast this film with "Dredd"(2012). Both are 'day-in-the-life' of a hardcore police officer. If you haven't watched "Dredd" yet, it's extremely worth a gander.
They both have similar theme of the protagonist is actually not a "good guy" at all. They are actually fascists. They believe their perspective is the only one that is "true". They are great movies though, but they are intentionally meant to present the lead as questionable morality when you abstract their behavior across the board.
@@ididthisonpulpous6526 Absolutely! There are similarities in theme, buddy cops, "Magnum Force" provides some spoilers for "Dredd", etc.; the shot sequences are very similar, etc... there's a gold mine for drunken discussion!
Ha! I did a bad thing for an interweb user... I abandoned my laziness and actually went and looked stuff up.... Apparently, John Wagner, creator of JD, was a big Dirty Harry fan and had created a nascent Judge Dredd type character named "One-Eyed Jack" in his beginning days. BAM! Now I have more to discuss when those beers start opening.
@@ididthisonpulpous6526 Well Dredd was inspired by Dirty Harry, with John Wagner wanting to take the Dirty Harry-style fascistic 'tough' cop to the logical extreme of making him so tough and merciless that he's literally empowered to sentence and execute anyone as he sees fit. At its best 2000AD has always been a satirical commentary on Western/British society and the dangers of listening to certain voices when they called for things like increasingly hardline treatment of people by the police or more power and control over their everyday lives. Dredd's world is exactly that, a total police state were there's no democracy, no rights and the people in charge will imprison you or kill you if you don't follow their rules and feel righteous as they do it.
The Dirty Harry series and the Death Wish series both tap into the dismay and anger felt by certain segments of the population at the transformations society was going through at the time, the feeling that things were going all wrong
Very good reaction, dude. One thing I want to say about the darkness (lighting) of the film. You have to remember that people went to watch this in a darkened theater. They saw much more than you did, even in the most dimly lit scenes, BECAUSE they were watching in darkness. You watched this in a fully lit room. That offsets those dark scenes because of the surrounding light entering your eyes. I would urge you to see it again with the lights out. I guarantee you that you will see much more easily many of the things you had difficulty seeing this time around. And yes, it is a more modern noir film.
Movies you should add to watch list (posted this on previous video, but forgot to add Wasabi) - The man from Earth (philosophical movie, great storytelling) - Taxi (1998, fun comedy) - Lord of War - The Ghost and the Darkness - The Edge -Wasabi(2001)
The sequels are fine, including "The Dead Pool" w/ Jim Carrey of all people. I'd like to see you explore other Eastwood-involved endeavors. "Gran Torino" is by far my favorite from Eastwood as an actor/writer/director. As a director, I'm also very fond of "Mystic River". But he's been involved in other films which, while not perhaps 'Oscar worthy', are still fine and fun films. I recommend "Every Which Way But Loose" (which was my favorite as a kid) and "Any Which Way You Can", its sequel. Very funny w/ great performances by Ruth Gordon and Geoffrey Lewis. I kinda liked "Space Cowboys" as well. James Gardner, Tommy Lee Jones, and Donald Sutherland w/ Eastwood make for an amazing group of characters. Finally, "Play Misty for Me" is a MUST-SEE w/ a stellar performance by Jessica Walter.
The second movie, Magnum Force, is my personal favorite of the franchise. It has very cool story setup, and Eastwood is just as slick as it gets.
Better than the first.
I really dug Sudden Impact too. Loved the story of that one.
Screen play by John Milius? Get outta here
I agree about Magnum Force being the best film of the Dirty Harry series.
It includes David Soul of Starsky And Hutch. It is interesting that he carries a Colt Python in Magnum Force and another as Starsky on TV.
Andrew Robinson will always be known for two memorable roles; the Scorpio Killer, and
Elim Garak.
I love Garak. Blew my mind when I found out recently, that he was the Scorpio killer in this movie.
(3:58) and pause. "Play Misty for Me" is on the marquee.
"Well do you punk?" Clint is the definition of an icon!
The score is by the legendary Lalo Schiffin, a legend of film and TV scores.
I especially like the music from the final scene after Harry has killed Scorpio and he throws his badge away .
Dirty Harry is a great movie hero!!! I definitely recommend watching ALL of the Dirty Harry movies.
Don't be his partner, and he likes it when you make his coffee correctly.
Except the deadpool that one fucking sucked
*Anti Hero
@@crimesforkibble6912 That was truly awful.
Great reaction...just to let you know there are 5 Dirty Harry films in franchise...Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983) & The Dead Pool (1988)...all of them are excellent in my opinion...
One of the best cop movies that COULD NOT be made today.
Scorpio is my favorite of Harry’s villains because the actor who portrays him, Andrew Robinson, played the best reoccurring character in all of Star Trek - Elam Garak.
Check out the Dirty Harry sequels. The first three are all quite good.
Great choice, ' Escape From Alcatraz" is very good as are the Dirty Harry sequels. " Death Wish " 1974 is great too. Lots more political commentary on the apathy and correctness on crime and law enforcement at this time
Dirty Harry is almost as iconic as Eastwood's numerous Western roles. "Coogan's Bluff", "Kelly's Heroes", and "Play Misty for Me" are some other Eastwood classics you might enjoy.
In one of the scenes in the movie, Eastwood runs by a building that shows a movie marquee which say's "Play Misty for me"
As seen here at the 3:58 minute mark. :-)
I like Coogan’s Bluff almost as much as Dirty Harry. It’s very obvious that it’s made in the hippie era, and the idea about a cop coming to a completely different enviroment is always interesting. Kelly’s Heroes is great too, and I appreciate that you bring Play Misty for Me up since I rarely see comments about it. A pretty good movie with a believable plot.
It was obvious that TV's McCloud was an adaptation of Cougan's Bluff.
Almost? It is the quintessential anti-hero movie period.
I love those real shots from the past. No green screen, that was the real look of that time...
It sure was. That's was my childhood setting in the late 1960's & 70's in the USA. Bleak urban decay with a borderline post apocalyptic feel. My 4 brothers and I considered it a giant playground and treated it as such. We had a happy childhood. We were like 5 little "Omega Men"!
You should keep the Dirty Harry franchise going. All the films are good. The next one, Magnum Force, is my favorite.
Sudden Impact is good too
He gave Jim Carrey his big break in one.
@@coyotefever105 Sudden Impact's awful! The worst of the five by far!
One of the best movies of the 70s
Siegel was very profilic director in 50s and 60s make movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Killers (1964) or The Beguiled (1971). Work many times with Clint Eastwood (Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled and Escape from Alcatraz), they were friends and director going to be Eastwood mentor.
Clint has so many great movies you could react for months and never tired of them ,
Each Dirty Harry film has a classic catchphrase. The 4th film "Sudden Impact"s' catchphrase became so popular that you couldn't drive anywhere without seeing it on at least one bumper sticker on a car in the 80's.
Sudden impact such a classic
A true classic and the sequels are worth watching too. Another 1971 true life cop thriller The French Connection, is even better and cleaned up at the Oscars. Such a great year for movies!
Starring the great Gene Hack Man (the way Shan says it). Also directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist).
Yes, the French Connection was so good!
The thing you have to remember about the dark shots is that film and video have different playback characteristics when it comes to low light shots. This movie was shot for sitting in a dark room, watching it on a big screen, not for watching on a flat screen in a well lit room. So it would have worked much better on the big screen than a little screen transfer.
Movies always say 'this film has been formatted to fit your TV screen'. Can you imagine if it wasn't? All you'd see is like a knuckle. LOL
@@seanrosenau2088 - "Formatted' usually means that the frame size has been changed to that of your DVD. It does not usually mean that the colour intensities have changed.
@@spacecadet35 I know, I was making a joke about the size of the theater screen compared to the TV screen. 👍
@@seanrosenau2088 - Oops , sorry. My bad :)
That's your own headcanon. In the '70s and specially the '80s the deep dark scenes during night were a plague and they were horrid to understand what the hell one was watching on screen, I hated it back then and it is still today plain bad filmmaking.
Just wanna say Shan, I enjoy watching your reactions. Your not trying to give editorials, reviews and endless useless banter. Your actually reacting and then giving thoughtful insights and research before and after. Good job. I am following you on the James Bond series. Best regards.
Another fantastic reaction with great insight from you!
Andrew Robinson is an AMAZING actor who can do anything. He was so great in this role as the villain, he couldn't get work in any other kinds of parts, and rather than continue with the typecasting, he actually didn't do much film work ever again. He was great on a tv show called Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Not the best show until its later seasons, but his work was sooooo good. I wish he had a bigger film career.
That man can go for such a looooooong time without blinking.
Another great movie he was in is *Hellraiser.*
Andrew Robinson is fantastic as Scorpio in this. He really makes you loathe him, which makes our support for Harry justified. Incidentally, I forget if you've mentioned seeing it or not, but you should watch Hellraiser if you haven't yet. Maybe come October.
Robinson is an amazing actor. On one movie he's a villain you loath, in another he plays a very likable dorky guy. He's also one of those great character actors who has graced Star Trek more than once.
@@carlossaraiva8213 He played a harmless, boring Cardassian tailor on Deep Space Nine. Nothing unusual.
He was also prominent in ds9
@@Panzer4F2 Of course he was great storyteller also...
Dr. Bashir: What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?
Garak: My dear Doctor, they're all true.
Dr. Bashir: Even the lies?
Garak: Especially the lies.
@@Panzer4F2 and let us not forget him as the nice yet somewhat milquetoast dad in Hellraiser. He's the genuine article.
Probably one of the best cop movies made. Has a great plot, great music score, well known actors and a good ending. The badge throwing is just to say to the police, what's good the law when it can't save life.
Loved the movie when I was able to watch it on VHS at home.
Originally Don Siegel wanted John Wayne to play Dirty Harry, but Wayne didn't like the script because of its violence and language although he later regretted it then made a not very good similar toned cop thriller called McQ. My favorite Don Siegel film is INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956). Siegel would later get Wayne for the excellent THE SHOOTIST, Wayne's last film.
Two Mules for Sister Sara.
Wayne also made the dubious “Brannigan” set in London with Richard Attenborough. Thought that was his last film? Fun fact, in Brannigan John Wayne pushes a very young Tony Robinson (Aka Baldric) into the Thames.
@@andrewdoubtfire4700 One thing I appreciate about "Brannigan" is that the film had John Wayne's character have a fatherly sort of relationship to his female partner rather than a more cliched romantic relationship.
Frank Sinatra was also considered for the role . I think sometimes the actors that aren't the directors 1st choice ! turn out to be the one's "perfect" for the characters . Example Eastwood in Dirty Harry , Donald Pleasense Halloween , and Robert Shaw Jaws . None of them were who the directors wanted first pick . But can't imagine any other playing them as well .
I heard he wanted frank sinatra.
Yes definitely “Escape from Alcatraz “ saw it at the drive in 79 and Million dollar baby great movie, thanks Shan
A quick recommendation: As a big Clint Eastwood fan, I think one of the best movies I've seen him in was his last project: Gran Torino. He directed it and stars in it. At almost 90 years old, He's still got it.
Clint will be 92 on May 31st.
He's had more projects since Gran Torino
Trouble With The Curve, The Mule and Cry Macho, all released since (the brilliant) Gran Torino.
I'm glad you enjoyed this it's one of my favourite films. There are 4 more films after this where Eastwood plays Dirty Harry. Andrew Robinson who played the killer is a fantastic actor and has gone on to play a number of memorable roles, often characters who are psychotic.
His most memorable role is Garak, the exiled Cardassian spy/tailor on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Garak is one of the characters i was thinking of.
Garak is not psychotic. He is a harmless Cardassian tailor and that Romulan ship must have had an catastrophic engine malfunction.
That's debatable. Andrew Robinson agreed when i met him Garak was psychotic throughout.
@@DP-hy4vh Na his most memorable role is Scopio killer, one of the best performances I've ever seen, and criminally underrated.
Don Siegal started working in 1940's Warner Bros. movies doing the montage sequences for other directors movies. You can see his name on opening credits for many of the films including "Casablanca". At the end of the 40's through the 50's he got to direct "B" movies which lead to his career lasting until the 80's. He does an acting cameo in Eastwood's directorial debut "Play Misty For Me" as a bartender. Eastwood names him and Sergio Leone as his mentors for becoming a director.
He did pay tribute to them at the end credits of unforgiven
Yes!!! Looking forward to the rest of the Dirty Harry collection.
I binge watched them one weekend and had a great time. After so many years I can recognize the same people appearing in each movie. It's almost like a bunch of friends get together for a few days with a camera, and then it gets edited to make a story. Looks like a lot of fun actually.
Don Siegel is a great director. Many great films, including the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
Yeah,that Warner logo was from a period when The Kinney Company owned the studio.Most home video versions replaced it with whatever the current version is,so it's always nice to see it pop up.
11:23 That scream is awesome :D Andrew Robinson was really good in this role.
15:57 Great how he immediately is like oh shit. Callahan really put fear in him.
16:45 Hahaha :)
17:19 I like how in that scene Harrys face turns from angry to like peaceful when he knows that the creep will go for the gun.
Andrew Robinson was brilliant as Scorpio and was that good he apparently actually received death threats from people who thought the character was real ! My favourite dialogue is the speech Harry gives about not remembering how many bullets he has left and which finishes with the immortal lines " do you feel lucky.......well do you punk ?" the first time he uses it is on the bank robber where he is almost smiling and it is a bit of a joke , but then at the end of the film he delivers the same line to Scorpio and his hatred shines through as this was a guy who had killed four people including a police officer and a child and had kept a girl hostage and killed her and was prepared to blow up a bus full of children .
The Dirty Harry movies are all good, some more than others. Hope you continue the series.
When Dirty Harry came out, it really changed the way cop movies were made and seen and thus, its cinematic influence cannot be overstated.
Of course the story is completely fictional, the only part based on reality was that there was a Zodiac killer and he did send letters to the police though he never has been caught (for a great movie on the Zodiac killer, see Zodiac by David Fincher).
There is 4 more Dirty Harry, they're not as iconic as the first one but they're not bad, the best of the bunch being 1983 Sudden Impact which has the famous line: "Go ahead, make my day."
Dirty Harry has become an integral part of pop culture, in Naked Gun, when Frank Drebbin says: "When I see 5 weirdos in togas stabbing a man in front of a hundred people I shoot the bastards, that's my policy." it's a direct reference to this movie.
A word about Andy Robinson, who plays the unhinged Scorpio killer (a clear reference to the Zodiac Killer), for years he could not get roles that were not in the mold of his portrayal here because he gave such a convincing performance that he was typecast, which is sad.
He got the lead role in the horror thriller Hellraiser in 1987 and has had many different roles since but for years his career was impaired because people could only see in him Scorpio.
"That was a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar, you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones!"
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Leslie Nielsen was truly a comedic genius.
And of course most memorable for all the Trekkies that know him and love him as Garek on Deep Space Nine
@@zatoichi1 He's been very grateful for having the opportunity to play Garak because he got to work his acting muscles.
In ‘76, Siegel directed John Wayne in The Shootist. It was Wayne’s last picture, which was about the end of a man and the end of an era. It makes a good double feature with John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) with Wayne, and James Stewart (also in the Shootist).
The first 3 sequels are solid and worth watching but probably not up to the same level as this one (haven't seen the last one in many years but I did enjoy it at the time). Since you're watching Bond, Eastwood did a fairly Bond-like movie/character in the 70's called The Eiger Sanction. As for Don Siegel, I highly recommend the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). While the 78 remake is quite good, the original still works extremely well, in part since the story isn't reliant on many special fx.
You have the most interesting reaction channel. The fact that you watch these older films and provide such grounded insights is a rarity. You are so underrated!
25:06 - I also like the score composed by Lalo Schifrin. This Agentinian pianist and compores many popular movies from 60s and 70s like Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, THX 1138, Enter the Dragon and The Amityville Horror.
. . . and TV shows like Hawaii 5-0 and Mission Impossible
Lalo even did the score for the Rush Hour films series (with Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan) as well 😉👍
He also scored all of the Dirty Harry sequels as well.
@@sherrykaye4235 He didn't do Hawaii 5-O.
@@StuntFan He didn't work on "The Enforcer". That's Jerry Fielding.
An 80s TV show called Sledge Hammer! spoofed the Dirty Harry movies, in pretty entertaining fashion, for two Seasons. Sometimes the jokes are so specific, that the show was much more rewarding for fans of Dirty Harry, instead of the casual viewer. The Pilot episode, 'Under The Gun', is recommended, and I like a later episode, 'Jagged Sledge', where the spoofing includes courtroom movies, like Jagged Edge. Some episodes are funnier than others, but David Rasche's performance as the Dirty Harry-esque character stays strong throughout.
Trust me, I know what I'm doing!
Sledge Hammer starred David Rasche, who I thought played a terrific, memorable character in Eddy Murphy's "Best Defence" movie. Shame the series never caught on. Perhaps it was too clever ?
I have the entire box set.Man,that was such an awesome series.
My father and i used to watch Sledgehammer religiously. Loved it.
@@mitchellbeston1033 so did I.
The real shame was that it was just so good,why was it such a brief series?
David Rasche was just brilliant,as were his co-stars.A very under-rated series.
Don Siegel was one of THE action directors in the late 1960s, early 1970. A lot of the movies are classics. And, yes, DO watch "Escape from Alcatraz"!
Great reaction as always! Check out all the Dirty Harry movies, because they're all great. Also more Clint Eastwood : Kelly's Heroes, Play Misty For Me, Any Which Way You Can, Any Which Way You Loose, and Coogan's Bluff! BTW, I love that old typewriter you got there next to the guitar!
Agree - I also like the later films like Absolute Power, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Trouble with the Curve.
The darkness was hard to overcome back then. Remember, this was the 1970s, and the cities were not completely lit up with orange sodium lights. Same thing with the shaky camera. A man had to mount the camera on the shoulder to get those shots.
Good reaction. I just noticed that in one quick shot, a movie theater was playing a Clint Eastwood movie, "Play Misty for Me."
Dirty Harry Callaghan is definitely one of cinema's greatest anti heroes. There's also 4 sequels to this classic. I would recommend them all. Just pure escapism entertainment.
Dirty Harry is good but my favorite in the series is Sudden Impact.
My second favourite cop movie from 1971. I'd love to see you react to "The French Connection" one day.
The Zodiac and Zebra killings were happening at this time in San Francisco and the US Supreme Court had just handed down the Miranda v Arizona decision in 1966 and the lower courts and the legal system were just coming to grips with what it meant (in fact, the reading of "Miranda" warnings wasn't universal). The people catching and beating up Harry as a peeping Tom harkens back to San Francisco's days during the Gold Rush when the city had no real law enforcement and vigilante justice ruled. So the viewer is left to wonder about A. Law Enforcement vs. B. Taking the law into your own hands in the face of maniacs and no defense from government.
Early career role for the 'Zodiac killer' actor Andrew J. Robinson, who's also Garak from Star Trek Deep Space Nine and the 'And Jesus Wept' guy from Hellraiser.
Clint Eastwood went on a tear after this and most of his movies from this point on are all great
Great reaction and review! One of my all time favorite movies! Thank you, Shan! The sequels are all very entertaining and well worth a watch. Looking forward to more of your videos, as always.
Shan, first-time screenwriter Shane Black initially intended Lethal Weapon to be a much darker ‘urban western’, inspired by Clint Eastwood’s iconic Dirty Harry. You can tell this from similarities between the 2 films, like the new partner given to the veteran cops and especially how similar the 2 suicide jumper scenes are. There are 4 sequels and they are all worth watching IMHO so would enjoy seeing your reactions to them.
Don Siegel was an excellent director. He had a long history in Hollywood during the classic era as an editor and 2nd unit director. Siegel directed the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the 50s.
Clint Eastwood has so many great movies that you need to break them into categories. Westerns. Detective. WW2 and Orangutan.
Right turn, Clyde!
@@ernesthakey3396 Strip the Caddy Clyde. Clint, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland all starred in the greatest WW2 bank heist movie too. Woof Woof.
I love films from the late sixties to mid seventies; very gritty and an astonishing number of classics were made. Considered the second golden age of Hollywood.
So many good Eastwood films, but Outlaw Josey Wales, Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heros, Two Mules for Sister Sarah, and the Gauntlet are my top 5.
There's five films in the Dirty Harry series;
Dirty Harry (1971)
Magnum Force (1973)
The Enforcer (1976)
Sudden Impact (1983)
The Dead Pool (1988)
The Gauntlet was a hell of a ride too
Very good. I absolutely love this film!
I really think you will like the second one, Magnum Force 👍
Great reaction, gotta watch all 5 films in the series. Sudden Impact is probably my next favorite after this one.
Go ahead make my day
The guy who played Scorpio, also played one of the best Star Trek characters ever.
You may have noticed both Eastwood and Andrew Robinson both did their own stunts. The bus scene and Robinson back diving into the river. Robinson was also given permission to improvise in scenes by the director. The scene in the park, Robinson says "My, that's a big one" to Harry's 44 was his own line not in the original script. There are 1 or 2 interviews on TH-cam of Robinson you should check out.
Both Andrew Robinson and Bruce Dern are some of the only actors I know of that have received death threats for iconic roles especially Dern for his bad guy villain in The Cowboys (1972) that even to this day, people still give Dern hell for it.
That's all I have to say except, again good reaction as always, enjoy, and have fun!
The hotel with the swimming pool shown at the start of the film was a Holliday Inn back then. In the late 70's and early 80's I would rent a top floor room on New Year's Eve. It was the top floor because it was the only floor with balconies. Of course, I always chose the Bay Side for the view. Below were thousands of people celebrating the new year. That hotel is no longer Holliday Inn. It is located on the edges of Chinatown and the Financial District. As for the film, "Zodiac," I really liked how the showed the progress of the building of the Transamerica Pyramid as time passed. It was in 1972 that I moved from the Midwest to the San Francisco Bay Area. I have never regretted it.
We need people like Harry Callahan today!
Great reaction review, I really enjoy the Dirty Harry series and I hope you will continue with the rest of the Dirty Harry movies. Dirty Harry is one of my favorite movie cop characters. Did you notice the suicide jumper scene is reimagined in Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson?
In the movie Zodiac, the cops who are investigating the Zodiac attend the Dirty Harry premier and its obvious that the Zodiac is an influence.
Scorpio’s laugh as he lunges for the Luger just before Harry blows him away never gets old.
I love Dirty Harry. It’s a classic for me now. Yeah Clint always plays a man of few words. It’s not really based on the Zodiac killer (there are a few similarities). Clint loves jazz and often has it in his movies. I love his loner cop. I want him on my side for sure. Escape from Alcatraz is well worth watching. It’s well done. Good reaction Shan. 😀
Just starting this vid. It may already have been mentioned, but Eastwood again plays Harry Callahan in Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden impact, and The Dead Pool. Plays similar but distinct cop characters in Tightrope and The Rookie.
Fantastic choice today buddy! I enjoyed revisiting this Eastwood classic with you. Looking forward to more Bond too. Keep up the good work!
Shooting at night before digital cameras required LOTS of artificial lighting. Big productions, like Terminator 2 for example, use huge stadium style flood lights on towers to create enough light. That is expensive and time consuming so shooting day for night used to be very common. DH was filmed on location with a small budget using relatively primitive technology. Plus Segal was going for a naturalistic look.
Ah :) Great film, great villain.
Kezar Stadium @ 12:10, home of the San Francisco 49ers from 1946 until shortly before this film was shot.
Dirty Harry set Eastwood up as a non-Western icon, but let’s not forget his more comedic efforts. Michael (The Deer Hunter) Cimino wrote and directed Eastwood and Jeff Bridges in the fun romp Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), which includes a lot of Eastwood’s film buddies, like Geoffrey Lewis.
This movie was made during a time when crime was literally out of control in the US. In fact there were several active serial killers in California alone around this period. People were scared to walk down the street at night & this movie reflected that well. There wasn't alot of public sympathy for criminals in those days (unlike today). People just wanted results & Callahan embodied that sentiment. The killer's rights seemed to take precedence (like today) over the victim's. That, I think, is why this movie and character resonated so much with audiences.
So that trend followed with 1974's Death Wish?
@@AneudiD78 Great minds think alike. That had occurred to me as well.
@@riggo8219 It had just occurred to me that when there's a crisis happening, that movies being released during that time reflect what people are thinking. So, what movie genres are being released currently? Or current movies want us to be thinking a certain way.
@@AneudiD78 Obviously, everything is political these days. But, while older films would tend to reflect what was happening in society, newer movies seem to be about steering society in a certain direction (left). Filmmakers these days tend to disregard actual problems for manufactured ones. For instance, China is not a threat to the world, but climate change is going to kill us all.
If you get a chance to watch the original death wish for Charles Bronson it’s also coming up on the 50th anniversary
The actor who plays the part of Scorpio (Andrew Robinson), Clint Eastwood saw him on a stage play, and he thought he would be the perfect part for the character. Andrew was very anti-gun and he had no experience in handling guns at all. He had to be trained on handling guns for the filming. He was not comfortable with the prop guns on the movie set. Also after 'Dirty Harry' was released, Andrew was receiving threatening phone calls from people because they thought his character Scorpio was real. Even when he changed his phone number a few times he would still receive threatening phone calls. Eventually it stopped. Good reaction Shan!
Fistful of Dollars 1964 (Clint's first Spaghetti Western) changed the way Westerns were filmed. It's based on the famous Japanese Samurai film 'Yojimbo'. Spaghetti Westerns were mostly filmed in Spain with Italian directors with mostly Euro casts most of them Italians and Spaniards but other Europeans and some Americans like Clint and Lee Van Cleef.
The famous line was used twice to expand upon Harry's range of emotions. The first was a playful taunt. The second from a place of anger and frustration. The film is very loosely based on the Zodiac Killer, who did allegedly see the film which he remarked about in a letter. Dirty Harry is my all-time favorite Eastwood flick. The film has been panned by some critics as being a fascist's wet dream, but I see it more as a commentary on America's judicial system and how messed up it is. There are four other films in the Dirty Harry franchise. Magnum Force, a must see, The Enforcer, an okay film, Sudden Impact, another great film, and Dead Pool, which is the worst of the bunch. Definitely all worth a see.
I really liked death pool, maybe because it was the first Dirty Harry movie I saw. Possibly you're right - I need to rewatch it
@@mrkwrbl I think it was also Jim Carrey's film debut . He is credited as James Carrey in the titles..
@@scooby1992 yes, I think you're right
Kezar Stadium was the stadium they were at in the movie. Very legendary stadium and still there in San Francisco, remodeled in the late 80s or early 90s and still well and running now.
You already did Unforgiven but In the end credits The 2 people Eastwood thanked were Sergio Leone & Don Siegel
just noticed the cinema sign before Clint walked into the coffee shop just before he had the shoot out with the bank robbers. it was Play misty for me!
Clint Eastwood... One of the last living "All-Time-Legends" so far -> Great Actor, Great Producer, Great Director... Even a Great Composer!
Gosh, I have watched this movie so many times and remains one of my favorite Eastwood classics. Great movie! by the way, you're gonna love Million Dollar Baby.
Escape From Alcatraz!! Yup 👍 An absolute Classic!
I forgot about ‘Hot Mary’ …..I want to forget again
I only just realized watching this, that when Harry was going for coffee just before the "Do you feel lucky?" scene, there was a cinema in the background that was showing 'Play Misty For Me'. That was the first film that Clint Eastwood directed, and was in cinemas in 1971. Also noticed for the first time that the actor playing the mayor of San Francisco also appeared with Clint Eastwood in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' in 1976, also directed by Clint.
Dirty Harry was one of the three movies from late 60. and early 70. (Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The French Connection) which changes police drama (or we can say crime thrillers) showing uncompromised cops. They fought dirty, using violence methods like sheriffs from Old West and wasn't in any political agendas or in someone pockets. Callahan is the most recognizable from all three movies. Still impressing stuff.
Harry and Bullitt were based on real life SFPD detective Dave Toschi, portrayed by Mark Ruffalo in Zodiac, and namesake of Toschi Station in Star Wars.
Serpico was important too
@@Jim-Mc Bullitt and the French Connection have some of the best driving action of all time. Apparently Steve McQueen was personally involved.
Did you see in the background that “Play Misty For Me” was playing in the theater? Never noticed that before. Shan you should DEFINITELY watch that one!!!! It’s the original Fatal Attraction! SO GOOD!!!
The Dirty Harry sequels are all worth the watch. Eastwood is one of the best actors and directors of all time. You would be hard pressed to find a bad Eastwood movie. Movie trivia: after the robbery scene you see a theater sign with the movie Play Misty For Me(1971) on it. Eastwwood's first movie that he directed and starred in. Worth watching as well. Also if you are a Star Trek fan the killer (Andrew Robinson) plays a character in Deep Space 9 that I think is one of the best Star Trek characters in the franchise. He played others in some of the other series but that one stands out. A very well developed and interesting character named Garak. Robinson has played many roles in many very popular tv shows in the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s which why he seems so familiar. Shows like Bonanza, Kojak, A Team, DS9, JAG, X Files and many others.
My favorite line from the movie is "I gots, too know."
Albert Popwell who plays the bank robber in this movie was also involved with other Dirty Harry movies: 1976's The Enforcer as militant and 1983's Sudden Impact as Harry's detective colleague.
The Dirty Harry character is what made me a top Clint Eastwood fan. I was in high school around that time. My friend and I would watch everything he did. Incidentally, Andy Robinson (Scorpio-and who is best known for his recurring role in Deep Space 9) read the script before shooting began. He told Don Seigel that the script described Scorpio as a huge man with a shaven head. He said he wasn't right for the part. Seigel told him he was perfect. He wanted Scorpio to look like a choir boy, not a brute.
Dirty Harry #3 The Enforcer, is my favorite movie of the series.
Nice to see you watching this classic Shan. Great reaction! The next film in the series, Magnum Force is my favorite.
This movie and its sequels made the S&W 29 into a must have revolver. They went from sitting in
the showcase gathering dust to unobtainable.
On a weird note: It's fun to compare and contrast this film with "Dredd"(2012). Both are 'day-in-the-life' of a hardcore police officer. If you haven't watched "Dredd" yet, it's extremely worth a gander.
They both have similar theme of the protagonist is actually not a "good guy" at all. They are actually fascists. They believe their perspective is the only one that is "true". They are great movies though, but they are intentionally meant to present the lead as questionable morality when you abstract their behavior across the board.
@@ididthisonpulpous6526 Absolutely! There are similarities in theme, buddy cops, "Magnum Force" provides some spoilers for "Dredd", etc.; the shot sequences are very similar, etc... there's a gold mine for drunken discussion!
Ha! I did a bad thing for an interweb user... I abandoned my laziness and actually went and looked stuff up.... Apparently, John Wagner, creator of JD, was a big Dirty Harry fan and had created a nascent Judge Dredd type character named "One-Eyed Jack" in his beginning days. BAM! Now I have more to discuss when those beers start opening.
@@ididthisonpulpous6526 Well Dredd was inspired by Dirty Harry, with John Wagner wanting to take the Dirty Harry-style fascistic 'tough' cop to the logical extreme of making him so tough and merciless that he's literally empowered to sentence and execute anyone as he sees fit.
At its best 2000AD has always been a satirical commentary on Western/British society and the dangers of listening to certain voices when they called for things like increasingly hardline treatment of people by the police or more power and control over their everyday lives. Dredd's world is exactly that, a total police state were there's no democracy, no rights and the people in charge will imprison you or kill you if you don't follow their rules and feel righteous as they do it.
The suicide jumper scene was directed by Eastwood himself as Siegel was ill.
Escape from Alcatraz is a very good film, highly recommended!
The Dirty Harry series and the Death Wish series both tap into the dismay and anger felt by certain segments of the population at the transformations society was going through at the time, the feeling that things were going all wrong
Things did go all wrong, have you seen any of the news out of San Fransico?
Awesome reaction! Thanks for all your great cinematic insights and observations. I hope you react to all the other Dirty Harry films too.
Very good reaction, dude. One thing I want to say about the darkness (lighting) of the film. You have to remember that people went to watch this in a darkened theater. They saw much more than you did, even in the most dimly lit scenes, BECAUSE they were watching in darkness. You watched this in a fully lit room. That offsets those dark scenes because of the surrounding light entering your eyes. I would urge you to see it again with the lights out. I guarantee you that you will see much more easily many of the things you had difficulty seeing this time around. And yes, it is a more modern noir film.
I like how you mention the ambience, music, etc. This is a great film!
Movies you should add to watch list (posted this on previous video, but forgot to add Wasabi)
- The man from Earth (philosophical movie, great storytelling)
- Taxi (1998, fun comedy)
- Lord of War
- The Ghost and the Darkness
- The Edge
-Wasabi(2001)
The sequels are fine, including "The Dead Pool" w/ Jim Carrey of all people. I'd like to see you explore other Eastwood-involved endeavors.
"Gran Torino" is by far my favorite from Eastwood as an actor/writer/director. As a director, I'm also very fond of "Mystic River". But he's been involved in other films which, while not perhaps 'Oscar worthy', are still fine and fun films.
I recommend "Every Which Way But Loose" (which was my favorite as a kid) and "Any Which Way You Can", its sequel. Very funny w/ great performances by Ruth Gordon and Geoffrey Lewis. I kinda liked "Space Cowboys" as well. James Gardner, Tommy Lee Jones, and Donald Sutherland w/ Eastwood make for an amazing group of characters. Finally, "Play Misty for Me" is a MUST-SEE w/ a stellar performance by Jessica Walter.