Dirty Harry - Clint Eastwood Poster (24 X 36)

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A poster with good colors and overall clean appearance. It may have minor tears small paper loss and minor stains. It may have some fold seperation. A fascinating forerunner of modern day movie posters & of great interest to anyone interested in the technology of poster manufacture & display. This is a very scarce surviving specimen & a genuinely rare item of Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry memorabilia. The reverse image of the poster shows the radical comparison with all other US 1-Sheet posters which were single-sided. Eastwood is a plain-clothes policeman who puts his faith in his Colt Magnum.44 and his ability to use it… He is ready to shoot down a criminal as arrest him… Eastwood brought the rude justice of the lawless West to the regular laws of the modern city… Perhaps his behavior would have been less controversial if he had merely been a renegade cop who broke the rules when roused by anger, but in the cool neon light of his superior’s office, he is evidently unrepentant about his behavior… AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies: Official Ballot" (PDF). American Film Institute . Retrieved August 23, 2010. John Milius later said he loved the film: "I think it's a great film, one of the few recent great films, more important than The Godfather. It's larger than the sum of its parts; I don't think it's so brilliantly written or so brilliantly acted. Siegel can take more credit than anyone for it." [24] Box office performance [ edit ]

In this character, Clint Eastwood is the archetypal cop of the 1970s… He is unsociable, insensitive, silent without apparent reason, incapable equally of thought or of any human feeling, solving all problems with a blast from a revolver so heavy that it takes two hands to aim it… In fact, the reason why Clint Eastwood behaves so ruthlessly in “Dirty Harry” is carefully plotted at one point in the film: his wife was killed by a hit-and-run driver escaping from the scene of a crime, so he hates all baddies. In 2014, Time Out polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films. [62] Dirty Harry was listed at 78th place in this list. [63]

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Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action thriller film [2] produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first appearance as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the real-life case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath. [3] Washington Square, San Francisco, CA". Google Maps. November 4, 2013 . Retrieved December 20, 2013. Since its release, the film's critical reputation has grown in stature. Dirty Harry was selected in 2008 by Empire as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. [52] It was placed similarly on The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made list by The New York Times. [53] In January 2010, Total Film included the film on its list of The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. [54] TV Guide and Vanity Fair also included the film on their lists of the 50 best movies. [55] [56]

In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant." [4] [5] [6] Plot [ edit ] Clint Eastwood had played “Dirty Harry” five times in the sequels ‘ Magnum Force‘, ‘The Enforcer’, ‘ Sudden Impact‘ and ‘ The Dead Pool.’ Callahan is always in a situation where he has to be his own judge and jury… Harry always gets somebody who’s very lethal… In the case of “Dirty Harry”, it was a psychopathic killer… Callahan wants to get him off the streets so that nobody else becomes a victim… He is a man on the side of the public… He feels that the law is wrong and he should fight that or try to solve it… Harry is not a man who stands for violence… He is a man who can’t understand society tolerating violence…The line, "My, that's a big one," spoken by Scorpio when Callahan removes his gun, was an ad-lib by Robinson. The crew broke into laughter as a result of the double entendre and the scene had to be re-shot, but the line stayed. The final scene, in which Callahan throws his badge into the water, is supposedly an homage to a similar scene from 1952's High Noon. [27] Eastwood initially did not want to toss the badge, believing it indicated that Callahan was quitting the police department. Siegel argued that tossing the badge was instead Callahan's indication of casting away the inefficiency of the police force's rules and bureaucracy. [27] Although Eastwood was able to convince Siegel not to have Callahan toss the badge, when the scene was filmed, Eastwood changed his mind and went with Siegel's preferred ending. [27] Filming locations [ edit ] Although Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood's signature role, he was not a top contender for the part. The role of Harry Callahan was offered to John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, [9] and later to Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Burt Lancaster. [7] In his 1980 interview with Playboy, George C. Scott claimed that he was initially offered the role, but the script's violent nature led him to turn it down. When producer Jennings Lang initially could not find an actor to take the role of Callahan, he sold the film rights to ABC Television. Although ABC wanted to turn it into a TV movie, the amount of violence in the script was deemed excessive for television, so the rights were sold to Warner Bros. [10] Anecdotage.Com". Anecdotage.com. September 29, 2012. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012 . Retrieved December 20, 2013.