Richard Harrow was a great character in a worthy series. He was a cold-blooded killer, yet sensitive and vulnerable, and wounded tragic figure. Yeah, he gave "Boardwalk Empire" added flavor. That bad ass shoot up scene of the Gyp Rosetti enclave is pretty gruesome ... and pretty cool as a movie-action sequence.
Sad thing was he only wanted a normal life, but the war and his facial injuries stole that from him. I guess he figured there was nothing left in the world for him to do other than something he was good at - killing people.
He did spare one potential victim on the basis that he had two daughters. Though there was one other guy who didn't have kids and sadly got the bullet.
It's an allegory to what war does to people. Anyone who survived WW1 and was still able to wield a weapon without succumbing to "shell shock" is not someone to fuck with.
But i can't see the point of that maneuver. The guy wasn't shielded by Tomy's body and Richard could just headshot him at any moment even without that false surrender thing.
@@Je_QzcY3mN0 yeah I never understand this type of stand-off in movies either. I think in Silence of the Lambs they say to shoot the shoulder because it causes the gun to whip away and disables the arm. Or just headshot. Like usually they're having a gun fight and it suddenly stops with each pointing a gun at the other. Just shoot! MAYBE the gun will go off and MAYBE it will still be pointing towards you when it does but it's a guaranteed head shot for you and you've spent the last two minutes dodging many aimed shots already so why not one more potential one.
They're mobsters, not soldiers and they were probably drunk as well. Also Harrow has military training and experience as a marksman. I think it's pretty obvious why he'd annihilate them like that.
Most criminals and the like are very sloppy and under trained. They rely on surprise and numbers. A good fireteam of Marines or soldiers will do a lot of damage.
I agree Richard was my hero in the whole series. Nothing better than an assassin with morals. 3 times in the series I watched my favorite guys get bumped off. Richard was the one I was rooting for to survive till the end. BTW, I feel connected to a lot of the characters because I was the one to actually make the period spectacles for the cast.
Richard Harrow was a total badass in the history of a dramatic serial series. Right up there withTony Soprano, Dexter Morgan, Jax Teller, or Ray Donovan.
Jack Huston was inspired casting for this role... Harrow is a bundle of nerves unless and until he gets a hold of a weapon. His fingers are never still... look at some of the earlier seasons, and Huston plays it so subtly.
Best character of the entire show hands down. One moment in the show I really liked, was after he took out Manny, and Mickey claimed credit, he stormed into Nuckys office holding Mickey at gun point, and when speaking with Nucky about how he took manny out he tells Nucky how he has no grudge against him because him and Margaret were nothing but good to him. Especially knowing that Nucky killed Jimmy. Really like how he realized Jimmy just lost fairly and how he had no grudge. It just shows the respect he had and the level of morals as well. How above all his main goal was protecting Tommy. He was just probably the most moral character on the show and was always super reasonable. I remembered getting really worried at the scene of him in the woods. I wasn’t ready for him to go then I’m glad he didn’t
@@omgjustsignmeup I’ve had conversations with my husband about character deaths. There was a character on the wire that he told me would hit harder bc it’s the saddest he’s felt seeing a character death. I finally over this last Christmas got to watching and when that character died, I’m like, ok yeah it was sad but Richard Harrow was wayyyyyy worse. Way worse.
@@theanarchist_0025the best part about it was that he was being gagged with a native American loin cloth after bragging about how many he killed in the Indian Wars.
Kind of makes me think of the bar shoot out in "Unforgiven" in that ostensibly the shooter who keeps his cool under fire is most likely to walk away as panic causes errant shots, poor strategic thinking, or hestitation.
I believe he always shot right under the eye because its the most fulnerable intrance to the brain, considering the skull is more thick above the eyes. And a little nostalgia from the snioer he poped in the war. One of my favorite characters in any series and movie.
I wish they kept him as this invisible inescapable force of nature. The fight in Gyp's house, it's goofy there's several times one of Gyp's goons gets the drop on him and only plot armour saves him. Worst of all the last guy who is behind him and fully unseen, and just decides to run the full length of the corridor at him shouting to put him in a weak seatbelt
''Tommy, close your eyes'' -BAM, Who DOESN'T like that scene ? He has the decency to not show Tommy the violence, but to hell if he was gonna let Tommy get hurt.
Dude, you left out Harrow's cold contract murder of a businessman (he shot him in the cheek so he could suffer a bit) and his accidental killing of Chalky White's daughter, which led to his own death.
the last one of course is absolutely immense but I really love the three steps he take at 1:50 before he takes the klan guy out. Tommy, close your eyes
I wanted Richard to find happiness with that woman he met. When they wrote him out of the series they lost me as viewer. One of my favorite characters of all time.
00:15 The awkward moment when you have an appointment at the VA and you look normal and a team-mate/soldier/sailor/airman or marine is disfigured, crippled or maimed and you look at one another waiting for your appointment.
chalky was pretty close. hated the fact heroin was being sold on his streets and barely killed anybody (as far as we know) but he probably had the least amount of blood on his hands among the whole main cast
Stacking bodies like it's cool, good old Ricky H! He and Pearl were two of the most beautiful disfigured folks I've ever seen, and of course my man Jimmy had their backs until the end.
After killing Manny Horvitz, Richard tells Nucky that he has killed 63 men. Manny was his 7th victim as a gangster, that means that he had killed 56 men in war before. At the end of season three, he has killed about 75 People. FUCKING CAMPER.
Richard Harrows reminds me of Joshua Graham. Something about a deformed soldier that has that code. The fact that they both are incredibly skilled, but still make basic mistakes if really eerie to me.
I'll never get over how absolutely cold it was to see "fucking confession written at gun point" followed by "not just a confession" and as the gun is being put in his mouth Richard "a suicide note". Like goddamn.
You really must do more of these! Absolutely love 'em! :-) Don't really know if he had enough kills, but I'd really like to see one featuring Owen. Just putting it out there. :D
I love that in games and movies when there's a bullethole in the head but there is only one small trickle of blood when in reality blood flows like a torrential river
richard truely represents the unstoppable force, the unquenchable thirst, that war has for destruction. a thrist for death, destruction, wanton violence that destroys familys and tears people apart, a force that seemingly arrises out of nowhere and consumes everything.
At 4:20, this guy completely screwed up his chance to just play dead. He would've been able to tell his friends how he survived the Bath House Massacre. But noooO0Oooo! Someone had to play the hero. lol
The craziest part is, Richard didn't know Gyp's men were being pulled out and just left... He was going in there fully prepared to kill 100 of them
7 years late but i don’t care
richard has balls made out of titanium
capone took care of them
@@aarongoldstein8472 👍
I didn't even think of this
@@aarongoldstein8472nopeb
This guy was an interior decorator.
If this was a reference to Pine Barrens....LMMFAO!
his house looked like shit
@@rickyricardo4331 to wtf else kid?
@@deathrager2404 the Sopranos.... Czechoslovakians
@@jakemitchell6578 whateva happened theah....
I guess for the survivors this was....
A harrowing experience...
OK I'll shut up now.
Please DONT shut up.
Hotshotter3000 YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Ha! Awesome comment.
CARLOS
Very punny
Richard Harrow was a great character in a worthy series. He was a cold-blooded killer, yet sensitive and vulnerable, and wounded tragic figure. Yeah, he gave "Boardwalk Empire" added flavor. That bad ass shoot up scene of the Gyp Rosetti enclave is pretty gruesome ... and pretty cool as a movie-action sequence.
Sad thing was he only wanted a normal life, but the war and his facial injuries stole that from him. I guess he figured there was nothing left in the world for him to do other than something he was good at - killing people.
What a load of fkn crap
He did spare one potential victim on the basis that he had two daughters. Though there was one other guy who didn't have kids and sadly got the bullet.
It's so much more than that and I'm sad this is the top comment of this page.
It's an allegory to what war does to people. Anyone who survived WW1 and was still able to wield a weapon without succumbing to "shell shock" is not someone to fuck with.
I remember him telling Nucky that he killed 63 people meaning that he killed a total of 82, Thats insanity
was looking for someone else who did the math too 😂😂
They never counted the people he shot off camera when Gyp was hiding
I just love the fact that as he was pretending to put the gun down he kept that muzzle pointed straight at the guy.
That's was a great kill especially when he told the boy to close his eyes .
But i can't see the point of that maneuver. The guy wasn't shielded by Tomy's body and Richard could just headshot him at any moment even without that false surrender thing.
@@Je_QzcY3mN0 getting to guy to relax his finger off the trigger so the muscle spasm wouldn't pull it, I guess.
@@Je_QzcY3mN0 I think Richard was concerned that the thug might just shoot the boy.
So he had to head fake him a little bit.
@@Je_QzcY3mN0 yeah I never understand this type of stand-off in movies either. I think in Silence of the Lambs they say to shoot the shoulder because it causes the gun to whip away and disables the arm. Or just headshot. Like usually they're having a gun fight and it suddenly stops with each pointing a gun at the other. Just shoot! MAYBE the gun will go off and MAYBE it will still be pointing towards you when it does but it's a guaranteed head shot for you and you've spent the last two minutes dodging many aimed shots already so why not one more potential one.
Not just a confession...its a suicide note.
I came here to hear it once more.
That is genius
I love that scene so much
The most moral man on the show was the most ruthless killer.
“Who the hell are you!?” “A soldier.”
Jimmy couldn't even look.
Enough said. Anyone who fought in WW1 is not someone you want to fuck with. WW1 was BRUTAL.
Straight Outta WW1 lol
Oh goodness, lol.
4real man
Those gangsters had no chance against a WWI vet that fought in Hell
@@MrSr3nity_97 Sorry but US servicemembers are not invincible. Real life isn't a video game.
@@Qwsgwx how do you mean?
They're mobsters, not soldiers and they were probably drunk as well. Also Harrow has military training and experience as a marksman. I think it's pretty obvious why he'd annihilate them like that.
thats correct sonnyjim
Didnt have to close his other eye while aiming
It's television, as in not real at all. Maybe more books and less Fortnight will help.
Most criminals and the like are very sloppy and under trained. They rely on surprise and numbers. A good fireteam of Marines or soldiers will do a lot of damage.
I believe the drunken part.
He was about on par with Jimmy until he took a stroll down to Gillian's house and literally cleaned it out. This isn't even the full list either.
Not literally
@@l1348 haha
There needs to be a GTA game that takes place during the 20's.
Not with all that old-timey music.
Absolutely with the old-timey music.
Mafia
1, 2, and 3
I mean mafia is good and all but an actual ROCKSTAR production in the 1920s would be dope as hell. They could do sooo much with it.
I agree Richard was my hero in the whole series. Nothing better than an assassin with morals. 3 times in the series I watched my favorite guys get bumped off. Richard was the one I was rooting for to survive till the end. BTW, I feel connected to a lot of the characters because I was the one to actually make the period spectacles for the cast.
Chris, how thought provoking
+Chris Beard: That’s funny, because I was the one who made the period spectacles 👓 for the cast.
Holy shit who made the spectacles
Al Dicon made the Sunglasses sill. I however had an in put on the suits.
I am doubtful of your claim.
RIP Richard Harrow... The best character in BE
if there was a jimmy and Richard show ... hbo would get all my money
spoiler
Totally agree...
Richard Harrow was a total badass in the history of a dramatic serial series.
Right up there withTony Soprano, Dexter Morgan, Jax Teller, or Ray Donovan.
@@SLAYERSWINE1 No Al Swearengen?
Half a face but a whole heart.
F. Society more like with a double heart
That pretty much wraps up who he was.
What heart?
More like no heart
Jack Huston was inspired casting for this role... Harrow is a bundle of nerves unless and until he gets a hold of a weapon. His fingers are never still... look at some of the earlier seasons, and Huston plays it so subtly.
they should have make a stand alone movie about this dude
By far the best character of the series.
they make d best team him and jimmy darmody
Few, if any, of the characters had any redeeming qualities, but Richard was my favorite. His death scene brought tears to my eyes.
My boy really just quick scoped them mobsters 😂🤧
Best character of the entire show hands down. One moment in the show I really liked, was after he took out Manny, and Mickey claimed credit, he stormed into Nuckys office holding Mickey at gun point, and when speaking with Nucky about how he took manny out he tells Nucky how he has no grudge against him because him and Margaret were nothing but good to him. Especially knowing that Nucky killed Jimmy. Really like how he realized Jimmy just lost fairly and how he had no grudge. It just shows the respect he had and the level of morals as well. How above all his main goal was protecting Tommy. He was just probably the most moral character on the show and was always super reasonable. I remembered getting really worried at the scene of him in the woods. I wasn’t ready for him to go then I’m glad he didn’t
Binging this show right now. His death scene was STUNNING. I watched it at work and was trying so hard not to cry.
how did you manage not to! so poetically tragic!
@@omgjustsignmeup I’ve had conversations with my husband about character deaths. There was a character on the wire that he told me would hit harder bc it’s the saddest he’s felt seeing a character death. I finally over this last Christmas got to watching and when that character died, I’m like, ok yeah it was sad but Richard Harrow was wayyyyyy worse. Way worse.
@@ntala I hated seeing Omar get killed in "The Wire".
Omar doesn't die, he just fades away.
Him and Jimmy most badass characters in boardwalk empire
I always loved Richard’s story. He might not have been useful any other way, but dammit he still knew how to kill
He gave good advice sometimes he was usually quiet but sometimes gave Jimmy and a few others good strategies
"All by myself" playing in the background is perfect for a character like Richard Harrow
The Manny Horwitz killing. The one that gave him great personal satisfaction. The slight smile on his lips is awesome.
1:25 that's one of the most brutal deaths in TV history. Richard was hands down a top 5 best characters in the show.
Nothing like a good ole scalping amirite?
#1
0:51 that was brutal , a shotgun point blank to a trembling scared kid was the most merciless for me
@@theanarchist_0025the best part about it was that he was being gagged with a native American loin cloth after bragging about how many he killed in the Indian Wars.
Kind of makes me think of the bar shoot out in "Unforgiven" in that ostensibly the shooter who keeps his cool under fire is most likely to walk away as panic causes errant shots, poor strategic thinking, or hestitation.
This guy deserved his own show.
God no! Quality over quantity
Adding that 1920's opera music was a nice touch.
"All By Myself" is a pop standard by Irving Berlin, not opera.
The killing spree was the only scene (so far) that left me sitting on the edge of my chair out of excitement. He is the best!
Count was probably even higher. Richard never missed.
I believe he always shot right under the eye because its the most fulnerable intrance to the brain, considering the skull is more thick above the eyes. And a little nostalgia from the snioer he poped in the war. One of my favorite characters in any series and movie.
Loki: I have an army
Nucky: We have a Harrow...
:chungfumaster: Who’s “Loki” ? 🤔
Shit I'd take Mr Harrow over 20 men on my team
RIP Richard Harrow
With that level of stealth in the first scene Richard can take care of every boss by himself
I wish they kept him as this invisible inescapable force of nature. The fight in Gyp's house, it's goofy there's several times one of Gyp's goons gets the drop on him and only plot armour saves him. Worst of all the last guy who is behind him and fully unseen, and just decides to run the full length of the corridor at him shouting to put him in a weak seatbelt
Old Man: “Who the hell are you?”
Richard: “A SOLDIER!” 🔥🔥🔥
Every time you ask them “who the hell are you?” You gone find out the hard way 🤷🏽♀️
1 dislike was Gyp Rosetti
Very dislikable
That hat - jeez true bellend
Richard such a relaxed and quite man, but a focused and brutal one.
"hallowen is over" BOOM!!
CoD n00bs got nothing on Richard Harrow.
No one knows what that means
Gyp was crazy but even he scared of Richard
not a guy to anger
At 00:14 you can see Richard moving away from the curtains in the background building
Good eye
He was my fav. Him and Jimmy made a good team
''Tommy, close your eyes'' -BAM, Who DOESN'T like that scene ? He has the decency to not show Tommy the violence, but to hell if he was gonna let Tommy get hurt.
2:47
That moment you know you’re playing with a pro.
Dude, you left out Harrow's cold contract murder of a businessman (he shot him in the cheek so he could suffer a bit) and his accidental killing of Chalky White's daughter, which led to his own death.
@@Saffrone221 whatever you wrote made absolutely no sense.
I'm not a Lawyer but I play one on UA-cam I totally agree
I'm not a Lawyer but I play one on UA-cam no objection here
This was made in 2012. Those events happened in Season 4 which came out in 2013
@@funkynigerian8886 he is a time traveller
I never realized this but that shotgun kill at 1:50 also hit the guy behind him… that’s some serious attention to detail.
Always loved the catchy song to go with this scene
The kid hugging him was a great end.
the last one of course is absolutely immense but I really love the three steps he take at 1:50 before he takes the klan guy out.
Tommy, close your eyes
The last one was stupid. He could have just shot him straight away. He made the shot far harder for himself.
I just love those first two shots. So calm and lucid when he just walks in and proceeds to go one man army and shoot everything that moved.
I wanted Richard to find happiness with that woman he met. When they wrote him out of the series they lost me as viewer. One of my favorite characters of all time.
That last one, Mr, Harrow was fuckin no scoping before no scoping was a thing!
I hate that same dumb broad in every show who starts screaming bloody murder like someone's out to kill martha 🤣🤣
00:15 The awkward moment when you have an appointment at the VA and you look normal and a team-mate/soldier/sailor/airman or marine is disfigured, crippled or maimed and you look at one another waiting for your appointment.
Love the "Kill Count" graphic. Great video!
I wanted to hear a little bell each time the score incremented.
Hahaha! Pow...ding! Pow...ding! Pow...ding!
Harrow was my favorite character from this show.
I just noticed the curtain fluttering as the sniper left the room across the street. So subtle.
He was the only character I liked. In my opinion the show now lacks a hero, even if he was an anti-hero.
Wholeheartedly agree.
chalky was pretty close. hated the fact heroin was being sold on his streets and barely killed anybody (as far as we know) but he probably had the least amount of blood on his hands among the whole main cast
@@MrMCDERPINGTON alcohol is way worse
TOMMY! CLOSE YOUR EYES.
John Wicks grandpa.
the subtle background music you put on this was very good.
I can't be 100% but it seems Mr.Harrow favors the 1897 Winchester Trench Shotgun, a good choice!
Damn. They really wanted to send a message with the poor bastard in the wheelchair.
That guy was a fuckin prick. Deserved it
Yea, great idea to use bright white text boxes for this dark and dingy video. Really helps you to not be able to see any fine detail. Good job.
Loved the character!
When you have that much plot armor, who cares about getting cover or having a realistic gun shootout?
That scalping scene HOLY SHIT MAN 😬😬😬😬
Best character on the show along with Jimmy
Richard Harrow, world's greatest quickscoper.
I always forget, he did this with one eye.
But, when you aim a gun you close one eye anyway?
@@transamination Not always. You strain your eye more if you only have one eye. Is harder to have good aim if you only have one eye.
No body disliked Richard. His character was likeable and also so fucking bad ass
Stacking bodies like it's cool, good old Ricky H! He and Pearl were two of the most beautiful disfigured folks I've ever seen, and of course my man Jimmy had their backs until the end.
After killing Manny Horvitz, Richard tells Nucky that he has killed 63 men. Manny was his 7th victim as a gangster, that means that he had killed 56 men in war before. At the end of season three, he has killed about 75 People. FUCKING CAMPER.
76 if you unfortunately count chalky white's daughter.
PopolBruh826 actually his total kill for the whole show is 80. 55 before the show. S1: 3 kills. S2: 3. S3: 14. S4: 5 kills, including Maybelle White.
The creators of this series love to show eyes being blown out, lol.
I feel like the scene where Richard is acing those head shots up the stairs is in homage to the untouchables.
Richard Harrows reminds me of Joshua Graham. Something about a deformed soldier that has that code. The fact that they both are incredibly skilled, but still make basic mistakes if really eerie to me.
I'll never get over how absolutely cold it was to see "fucking confession written at gun point" followed by "not just a confession" and as the gun is being put in his mouth Richard "a suicide note". Like goddamn.
That last shot was slick
Amazing upload! Thank you!
That's a bad man right there
I never understood that "false surrendering" concept in those situations like the last kill. Why not just shoot right away? It won't change anything.
You really must do more of these! Absolutely love 'em! :-)
Don't really know if he had enough kills, but I'd really like to see one featuring Owen. Just putting it out there. :D
A most harrowing experience for the rescued child.
I love that in games and movies when there's a bullethole in the head but there is only one small trickle of blood when in reality blood flows like a torrential river
Boardwalk Empire's version of the Punisher
2:32-6:20 was quite possibly the most riveting 3:48 of television I’ve watched in my life. The first time I saw it I was on the edge of my seat.
need more like this Mr Gibbs...
The smile on his face priceless even if it's only really half. 2:14
"Not just a confession...... it's the suicide note" damn!!! that was stone cold🥶🥶🥶
At least he Scarfaced a whole house full of guys before he got cut off, and he killed all of them without a scratch unlike Scarface!
richard truely represents the unstoppable force, the unquenchable thirst, that war has for destruction. a thrist for death, destruction, wanton violence that destroys familys and tears people apart, a force that seemingly arrises out of nowhere and consumes everything.
Richard and Jimmy were the best characters of the entire series by far!
Richard was my favourite, felt like a down to earth person
Cool calm and collected. What your environment creates is deadly war is truly hell
These two are a great team
At 4:20, this guy completely screwed up his chance to just play dead. He would've been able to tell his friends how he survived the Bath House Massacre. But noooO0Oooo! Someone had to play the hero. lol
😂😂😂😂😂 so true!
Mr Harrow was definitely the most interesting and personal favorite character of mine, outside of nucky, capone, and gyp. I miss this show
This is an amazing scene for so many reasons!
All one shot kills, no assault rifle required,surely the last shot was a tiny bit lucky.