Magnum Force
This time the bullets are hitting pretty close to home.
Country
Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$39 768 000
Director
Actors
Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Felton Perry, Robert Urich, Kip Niven, Tim Matheson, Christine White, Adele Yoshioka
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Robert Daley
Camera operator
Frank Stanley
Composer
Artist
Audition
Nessa Hyams
Editing
Short description
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the beginning of the film, the voiceover featuring Dirty Harry's most famous line is read by Clint Eastwood himself. The actor also wanted his hand holding a revolver to appear on screen during the credits, but it was deemed too small and feminine-looking. Thus, this request was not granted.
- Harry Callahan's standard-issue weapon is a Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver. The same revolver is used by Eugene Tackleberry in the «Police Academy» film series.
- The characters played by Clint Eastwood and Hal Holbrook, with an explosive device in the car, drive past a sign with the number 76 three times over a period of about 30 seconds.
- According to screenwriter John Milius, the bedroom scene with an Asian woman (played by Adele Yoshioka) was included in the script because Clint Eastwood received numerous letters from female fans of Asian descent containing unambiguous propositions.
- The character played by Mitchell Ryan is killed in the film. On the day his death scene was being filmed, Ryan felt unwell and called a doctor. He later presented the director with a doctor's note stating that he was 'too sick to die'.
- Clint Eastwood declined the offer to direct, and Ted Post became the director. According to interviews with the actor and his biography, Clint Eastwood and Buddy Van Horn (a director known for staging Eastwood's films) were more involved in directing this film than Post was. Post had previously directed Eastwood in several episodes of the series Rawhide (1959-1965) and in the film Hang 'Em High (1968).
- When Clint Eastwood approached Don Siegel with a proposal to make a Dirty Harry film, he offered him a choice of four scripts, one of which was written by Terrence Malick. In that script, instead of a psychopathic killer who simply enjoyed killing, there was a man who killed criminals who had escaped punishment. Siegel did not like the script, but Eastwood did. Malick's ideas served as the basis for this film, the second in the Dirty Harry series.
- During production, Clint Eastwood repeatedly clashed with director Ted Post over who was actually in charge of the filming process. Among other things, Eastwood and Post argued over scenes they considered important. For example, Post caused a scene over a long shot of Eastwood on a motorcycle looking at the werewolf cops. Eastwood, as usual, wanted the filming to proceed smoothly and steadily, and frequently refused to redo the same takes.
- As with the work on the film 'Dirty Harry' (Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, 1971), Eastwood, playing the lead role, performed all the stunts himself. His face is clearly visible in some of the stunt scenes—such as the scene on the roof of a swaying car and the motorcycle scene.
- Toward the end of the film, Clint Eastwood's character shares his suspicions with his partner, played by Felton Perry. This scene contains a reference to a real-life situation in Brazil several years prior, when the Esquadrão da Morte, or death squad, operated under the military dictatorship from roughly the mid-1960s until the end of the decade. John Milius pitched the screenplay for the Dirty Harry film to Clint Eastwood. It was about police officers who kill those they cannot reach through legal means. Eastwood liked the idea, especially because he wanted to resolve a certain contradiction regarding his character's actions in the original 'Dirty Harry' (Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, 1971). Eastwood wanted to show that his character was by no means a vigilante (a vigilante is someone who bypasses legal procedures to pursue persons accused of real or imaginary crimes who have escaped deserved punishment).
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