Magnum Force (1973) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!
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FUN FACT: The pimp was also in "Dirty Harry" - he was the bank robber that Harry asked how many bullets he had left. He's also in the next two Harry movies. He and Clint must have been good buddies.
The late Albert Popwell.
A handful of Actors are in his movies multiple times....
Eastwood's production company tried to use a lot of the same supporting actors, the idea being "I know the actor's abilities." "Charlie McCoy" was played by Mitchell Ryan, who passed away March, 2022. Mitchell had a lot of great supporting roles, too. LIAR LIAR with Jim Carrey, etc. As noted elsewhere, Albert Popwell was the Questioning Bank Robber in DIRTY HARRY, then the Pimp in this MAGNUM FORCE. He shows up again as Mustafa in #3 THE ENFORCER and also in #4's SUDDEN IMPACT as Horace King.
Albert Popwell was also in The Enforcer as the radical leader and he was in Sudden Impact as Harry's partner. So he was in 4 out of 5 of the Dirty Harry movies as different characters.
@@Cbcw76
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I hope "Bullitt" 1968 is on your list.
Yes, that’s an iconic movie with a classic chase scene.
Ironically, Spielberg is in pre-production on a remake. Ordinarily I’m very skeptical about such attempts, but the story COULD be fantastically updated with the right cast and production.
@@davidwilkins5932for some reason, I just thought of Daniel Craig in Steve McQueens role
What's interesting in these films is the dichotomy in Harry's mind. He despises the system, because it's so corrupt, but he never entirely rejects it, except temporarily (at the end of the first movie). And, system or no system, he never betrays his own commitment to justice.
I don't think he despises the system because he still works within it as much as he possibly can, even accepting flawed outcomes like in the first when the sniper gets off on a technicality.
Even after he shoots him for saying he will kill again there's the regret for breaking his oath/code displayed by chucking his badge away, even if he ultimately decides he can live with it.
After this film you can be sure Brooks was painted as a heroic boss helping Harry and killed by the rookies, not as their leader
@@madpadukyeah…I feel like this movie was made as a direct response to critics of the first one. As flawed as the system is, Harry knows that it’s better than the alternative…reminds me of the quote attributed to Winston Churchill…democracy is the worst form of government…except for all the other ones that have been tried.
David Soul, who was the best rookie shot, went on to star in 1975's Starsky and Hutch, the best buddy cop show ever made!
TBR Schmitt: "Whoa, they're going to the airport for food?!"
- Yes, back before 9-11, I occasionally took a date to a restaurant at my city's airport.
It wasn't really romantic, but she and I could eat while watching plane lights land/takeoff in the night, on the runway.
I haven't done something like that, since. Security rules, you know.
There was even a chain back in the day that would locate thier restaurants right on the airport grounds at several airports around the country on the taxi ways. 94 th Aero Squadron was the name
Cool.
But the airport I was referring to was the one in my hometown, San Antonio. In Texas. 😊
Airport restaurants were really good. Some of them still are.
This was before a hamburger at the airport costs $15-20!
It took me the second time watching this to notice that Suzanne Summers was one of the swimming pool massacre victims. Three of the four rookie cops I recognized in later movies/tv shows. Tim Matheson from Animal House, Robert Urich from "Vegas", and David Soul from "Starsky and Hutch".
And the angry cop driving the yellow car is the main bad guy over Gary Busey in the Lethal Weapon movie.
@@VC-Toronto The late, Mitchell Ryan.
Robert Ulrich also starred in S.W.A.T.
@@jeffburnham6611 And the Series "Spenser".
@@Mirage_-ls4gf Ah yes, loved this TV show. Spenser and Hawk.
Based on a series of quiet successful detective novels.
You may also like:
_Thunderbolt and Lightfoot_ (1974),
_The Gauntlet_ (1977).
The Gauntlet is my fav.
“You wouldn’t hit a lady would ya?”....POW
The chubby detective is played by actor and poet John Mitchum, Robert Mitchum’s brother.
Here's why the motorcycle officer died when his motorcycle went off the flight deck of that aircraft carrier. The distance from the flight deck to the water is about 90 feet, and from that distance, a fall into water is fatal. The 90 foot figure comes from my dad, who served aboard the USS Saratoga circa 1955-1957. He told me that the flight deck was 90 feet above the water.
Sudden Impact (1983) is the craziest film in the franchise. It’s the fourth film in the series yet it has its most famous and iconic line. It also has an inconsistent tone where some scenes are like a slapstick comedy while other scenes have horrible violence towards women. Still worth watching but it feels like three different films stitched together.
This film was written by John Milius, who wrote Apocalypse Now and directed Conan the Barbarian, and is who John Goodman’s character from The Big Lebowski is based on.
Co-written by Milius with Mike Cimino (The Deer Hunter, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot).
For me The Outlaw Josey Wales is Clint's best western and best movie; it's so entertaining, I know you'd love it.
Also check out "The Gauntlet" -- It's not a Dirty Harry movie, but it's Clint Eastwood from around that same time also playing a cop.
When y'all finish up the trials and tribulations of our beloved Inspector Callahan you can't go wrong staying on the Eastwood train and reacting to Escape From Alcatraz, Firefox and maybe even The Eiger Sanction.
The Eiger Sanction. Yes!
All well worth it, yep.
Fun Fact as well in case you didn't pick it up, the guy who played Frank Palancio is "Tony Giorgio" and he was the guy who played Bruno Tattaglia in The Godfather (The guy who stabs Luca in the hand) at the bar if I remember correctly
You should see Steve McQueen's "Bullitt" ....great police movie and one of the greatest car chases ever filmed
Also filmed in San Francisco and Steve McQueen did his own stunts.
I look forward to your reaction to "The Enforcer". The interpersonal between Harry and his new partner allows us to learn even more about Harry's character. Tyne Daly, later known for the police series Gagney & Lacey, delivers a great performance here.
Tyne Daly is like fingernails on a blackboard for me.
7:25, the girl who was shot in the pool was Suzanne Sommers of Three's Company.
Yes... after she's killed here in this film, she really didn't get better-!
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Yes, good eye!! 👍👍
You like crazy car chases, you have got to watch Steve McQueen in "Bullitt" from 1968. It has one of the best and also shot in San Francisco. There is also the 1973 film "The Seven-Ups" with Roy Scheider of Jaws fame. Both are cop dramas and both worth the watch.
Saw The Seven Ups in the theatre, first run, age six.
Easily the best one of the series. Interesting fact - during the scene when the cops threaten Harry, when they drive off, the actors all collide with each other off camera. Eastwood stayed in character for the shot though. He said later "I was just threatened by the Keystone Cops."
I would have cracked up seeing Clint say that.
You guys need to watch Death Wish for a more raw 70s version of Dirty Harry
Charles Bronson is awesome 👍
And he has 5 films too like Clint's Dirty Harry films. ✌️
Agree 💯%
At least #1 and #2. DEATH WISH #3 enters the realm of Dumb AND Silly. I'd do the first two, then switch over to a solid film like Bronson's 1977 TELEFON where Donald ("Psychiatrist in HALLOWEEN") Pleasence reveals he's actually a deep-hidden Ruskie agent. But he eventually becomes President in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK before returning to his Dr. Loomis role in HALLOWEEN II. The one we'll likely never see is Donald as Victor Frankenstein in 1984's FRANKENSTEIN'S GREAT AUNT TILLIE. Darn. I'm sure that's a real winner!
Yeah Bronson's family and partners in those movies have it even harder than Dirty Harry's partners in these movies, they can be a tough watch at times. 😬
@@Cbcw76 I'd suggest the original film only, it's really the one you need to see where the sequels are just trashy and sleazy. I quite like the more traditional action of Part 4, the only one to skip is the very dumb Part 5.
Besides the Dirty Harry movies, you should check out Heartbreak Ridge. I think Eastwood shines in this one as a no nonsense Marine Gunnery Sergeant.
Swede, Swede, Swede
Mario van Peebles is also excellent in heartbreak ridge as a "lots of nonsense" marine 😊
@@RussellCHall Stitch F'N Jones!!! 🤘
@@philmakris8507 Stitch- “I bet she doesn’t know what’s 12” long and white….Nothing!
Highway- “I’ll tell what’s going to be Black and Bleeding if he doesn’t shut his face.”
3 of the rookie cops went on to have fairly successful careers. David Soul (Davis) was in a popular cop show in the 70's Starsky and Hutch. Tim Matheson (Sweet) has been in a ton of things, but might be best known for his role in the film Animal House and the TV show The West Wing. Robert Urich (Grimes) had a lot of parts from the 70's- 2000's, was the star of the TV show Vegas and had a part in the very popular miniseries Lonesome Dove
I love Matheson as Dead Larry on "Burn Notice".
I used to like David Soul...until I found out he was a Gooner 😭
David Soul was good in the ''Salem's Lot'' TV movie. He also had a hit song.
@@eddhardy1054 I'm old and had to look that word up😉. I did not know that about him
@@clash5j You must be really really old mate, Gooner's been a word since at least the 1970s 😉😊
The blonde rookie cop officer Davis who shot the motorcycle officer is David Soul who was a successful singer in the 70s, and actor who played Ken Hutchinson in the 70s cop TV show "Starsky & Hutch." Rookie officer Sweet is played by Tim Matheson who used to be a regular on TV shows such as "Bonanza" & "The West Wing", but probably his most famous role was playing "Otter" Stratton in the movie "Animal House." Rookie Officer Mike Grimes in this movie was played by the late great Robert Urich who was popular on the TV shows "Swat" and " Spencer for Hire", and in his most famous role as private detective Dan Tanna on the very popular TV show "Vegas."
Clint is awesome in the Westerns and Cop films, But Million Dollar Baby & Gran Torino are must see Clint Eastwood films from later in his acting career. You will be in awe!
The mobster Frank Palacino was played by Tony Giorgio, who played Bruno Tattaglia in the first Godfather film.
5:53, Mitchell Ryan, he was in Lethal Weapon, he played the villainous Gen McAllister.
He was also Thomas Gibson's dad on the sitcom, "Dharma & Greg" and was in another Eastwood film, "High Plains Drifter".
@@Madbandit77 Rikers dad in Star tek tng, cult of thorn leader in Halloween 6 as well
@@TonyTheLoneRiderSmith He also voiced Highfather, ruler of New Genesis in an episode of "Justice League: The Animated Series". RIP Mitchell Ryan.
I highly recommend you watch the 1993 Clint Eastwood crime drama A Perfect World, starring and directed by Eastwood with Kevin Costner, Laura Dern, and Bradley Whitford.
Eastwood plays a Texas Ranger in 1963 looking for an escaped convict, played by Costner, who kidnaps a young a boy, while the Ranger remembers the convict whom he put behind bars years earlier and tries to redeem himself before it's too late.
Yes! Please! You guys would LOVE that film. Costner is excellent, and it has the best performance by a child actor I've ever seen.
Excellent recommendation! I haven't thought about that movie in years, but I remember really liking it a lot when I saw it. It was an interesting role for Costner and I think he did a great job with it.
Definitely check out The Star Chamber (1983) with Michael Douglas. There's a similar premise to this movie.
I love that movie too, it also co-stars Hal Holbrook.
The first movie in the series got labeled as "fascist", which it wasn't, so when this one was being written they deliberately came up with a storyline that would show what a fascist cop, or cops in this case, would be like.
Also, as a side note for anyone who cares, the line in the shooting range when Harry answers the question "what kind of load do you use in that .44," with "a light special." has had people thinking for decades that Harry shoots .44 Specials out of that Model 29. John Milius, who co-wrote the script, said that Clint actually flubbed the line. The correct line was: "A special light magnum."
Back in the revolver days, a lot of police officers would train and practice with .38 Specials and switch to .357 Magnum loads for street carry. I just always assumed Harry meant he did the same with the .44 Special/Magnum.
That original line would have been stupid. I used to compete with two model 29 44 magnums, and the only "light magnum" was the Winchester Silvertip and that was still a magnum, no reason the word "special" would be used to describe it. I'm going to continue to say he uses specials for my sanity. Oh well, at least his model 29 didn't fire eight shots like Nick Nolte's in 48 hours.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Very true statement. 👍👍 Also, it was more economical to fire .38 Specials on the range ... not to mention the fact that after firing 100 rounds at the range (which was fairly standard) a .357 Magnum will make the revolver so hot that you wouldn't be able to touch the cylinder with your fingers. It would get hot enough with .38+P. Swinging out a hot cylinder to reload is very uncomfortable when it's blazing hot.
You really need to watch "The Outlaw Josey Wales" . My favorite Eastwood western.
You should submit to your patrons to vote on Eastwood's later cowboy westerns like 1) Pale Rider and 2) High Plains Drifter. However, two excellent CLASSIC westerns include:
1) High Noon (1952)- with Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly)- a sheriff must face a gang of arriving killers by himself without any help
2) "The Wild Bunch (1969)- (william Holden, directed by Sam Peckinpah. This film showed that the West was gritty, hard and wild, not the romanticized versions with Gene Autry or Roy Rogers. Nominated for many Oascars.
Both of these films were selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. I hope that your patrons will vote these older films (Lawrence of Arabia makes me hopeful)
If you would like to check out more Clint Eastwood I would recommend Tightrope (1984)
I'm hoping these 2 get to Escape From Alcatraz and The Eiger Sanction
So very close to 100k subs ! You two deserve that Silver Play Button as much as anyone I watch on UA-cam. Great reactions !
You can't go wrong watching Clint Eastwood movies and there are tons more to see.
Yes, all are watchable.
Yes, even The Gauntlet.
Yes, do Sudden Impact.
You'd be shocked to find out how common hijackings were in the 70's.
The first Eastwood cop movie I ever saw was "Coogans Bluff". Pretty good mix of funny there too. I believe it was kind of the precursor to the Dirty Harry films.
And it inspired the later cop show McCloud (1970-77) with Dennis Weaver.
It is a great film . Albert Popwell is also in it and Coogan's ( Eastwood's ) love interest is played by Susan Clark , who appeared in Porkys as Cherry Forever , the prostitute all the lads are supposed to have sex with in that cabin in the woods .
"A man's got to know his limitations". Might well be the most iconic one-liner in film history!
Actors from Vegas, Starsky & Hutch, Designing Women, Robocop and Albert Popwell, who was the bank robber in Dirty Harry and pimp in this one, he was in two other Dirty Harry movies playing different characters.
Great reaction guys!! I loved that Harry lost the shooting competition (on purpose) by shooting a cop...a hint to Davis of what's to come lol. Can't wait to see you react to The Enforcer and (especially) to Sudden Impact!!
There's a lot of material for discussion in this movie. In the first movie, Harry is known as a cop who "goes too far," a cop who flirts the line between vigilante and law enforcement. But Magnum Force tells us what a slippery slope Harry's philosophy for fighting crime is. The Death Squad represents what happens when Harry's philosophy is taken one step further.
Honestly ur gonna love the rest
One of the best action movies of the 70's. Another great Eastwood one, also starring Sondra Locke, is a stand-alone called The Gauntlet (1977).
Love that one, it's almost like a Dirty Harry character.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 A little bit, but the cop in The Gauntlet is a washout drinker, who gains redemption and love, and Callahan is a badass all the way.
Magnum Force is easily my second place of the series behind #4 Sudden Impact (Clint's Sondra Locke era is one of his best for me). Harry cleaning up killer cops. Definitely keep going!
The Japanese love interest (Adele Yoshioka) was probably my first movie crush. She was absolutely stunning!
Not Callahan but a couple other Eastwood as a cop films. Coogan's Bluff and the Gauntlet.
Easily my favorite Dirty Harry movie, but so much of it was just ridiculous.
1) No police force in history has ever issued Colt Pythons to traffic cops.
2) Silencers don't work on revolvers.
3) Harry really has no good way to explain to his superiors this situation after the finale, and given their dislike of him they likely wouldn't believe his story anyway.
There's tons of other things, but those three stand out.
"A man's got to know his limitations" still one of my favorite lines ever.
All the Dirty Harry movies are great; keep going! :)
The worst of the Dirty Harry films are 'slow in parts' and that's about it.
Not the last one it is.
@@Cbcw76 they werent slow. The pacing in older movies were more leisured than today, though there are some movies and TV shows that arr returning to that style. Which is fantastic because cinema was at its peak in the 1970s.
@@carlossaraiva8213 I agree, I think that may be partly why these older films are liked by younger viewers too because of this new trend of more leisured pacing at least in drama and horror, whereas action movies now have really gone crazy poor with CGI nonsense everywhere.
The 4th movie was pretty meh for me but I really enjoy the other 4.
Enjoying the old school Clint Eastwood films, some memorable ones I hope you watch at some point: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Escape from Alcatraz, Firefox, Unforgiven, In the Line of Fire, Mystic River, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima and Gran Torino. xx
The sequel is called, “The Outlaw Josey Wales.”
You may have missed.Inspector Frank "Fatso" DiGiorgio who was in the first film and also returns for the next one!
He was played by John Mitchum, Robert Mitchum's brother.
TBR Schmitt, you said that Charlie looked familiar. Charlie was played by Mitchell Ryan who played The General in Lethal Weapon. He's the one Murtaugh went back to kill that was in charge of Mr. Joshua.
also High Plains Drifter
*For your information:*
The pimp who killed the girl with Drano in the cab is actor Albert Popwell. He appeared in the first four Dirty Harry films playing a different character in each film. He was offered a role in fifth film *"Dead Pool"* but he couldn't do that film due to a schedule conflict. In the first film *(Dirty Harry),* Popwell played one of the bank robbers. Where Harry *"lost count"* and shot at the robber since the robber *"just gottas know".*
I hope you keep going on the Dirty Harry movies. People have saidvthat Dead Pool is weakest be but it still was fun to watch. Since Harry (Clint Eastwood) is a wonderful character to watch.
And don't forget that Jim Carrey and Liam Neeson were in "The Dead Pool" too!
he and Clint first met in Coogan's Bluff.
@@B-a-t-m-a-n And Carrey again in Pink Cadillac (1989).
Other fun facts: The blonde machine gunned in the pool was Suzanne Somers. The late Robert Urich, who played on the series "Vegas" was one of the motorcycle cops. The other two were David Soul, who starred in "Starsky and Hutch" on tv and Tim Matheson who was the voice of "Jonny Quest."
Matheson also played Otter in “Animal House.”
@@TheTerryGene he's damned glad to meet you
@@TheTerryGene and the VP in The West Wing
I can remember him in the series the virginian as well.
Michael Douglas "The Star Chamber"
So fun that you're continuing the Clint journey
Long may it last...
I hope they watch Play Misty For Me.
What I love about the ending is there’s no real evidence that can link him to really being involved. It’s not his car, and he didn’t even use his signature magnum. So, he can just go home and have a beer with his sexy lady friend, and call it a day:)
I definitely think you should continue with the series..The Enforcer from 1976, Sudden Impact from 1983 and The Dead Pool from 1988… I love them all
I just watched The Dead Pool again recently, it wasn't a big hit back in '88 but I think it holds up nicely today.
The Dead Pool had an early appearance by Jim Carrey ( credited as James Carrey ) . He wasnt in many scenes as he was quickly killed off.,
The Enforcer , Harry has his 1st female partner is a great watch too.
Tyne Daily - of TV's 'Cagney & Lacy' fame
Tyne Daley is a great addition to this. She’s my favorite of all his partners.
And next she'd co-star with Charles Bronson in the excellent Telefon (1977).
"A man's got to know his limitations." Me and my dad quote that one all the time. 😄
I really hope that you continue with the next one (which might be my personal favorite if I had to choose): The Enforcer!
Great reaction to a fantastic movie. FYI, the blonde leader of the motorcycle "Death Squad" is David Soul and he was a pretty famous actor/singer in the 70's He was one of the two leads in the TV show "Starsky and Hutch" and his biggest hit single was "Don't Give Up On Us Baby."
his partner is the guy from robocop who drank the "baby food" and worked for OCP ;)
The western part of Lombard Street is the famous snaking curves; the segment east of Van Ness becomes a _monstrous_ incline (I walked up it for laughs some twenty-five years ago and it damn near killed me). But this is _Hollywood_ San Francisco, where a car chase can teleport miles away at the turn of a corner.
Felton Perry, playing Harry's partner, was also OCP company man Johnson in the _Robocop_ movies.
Felton Perry also played Obra Eaker. He was Buford Pusser's (Joe Don Baker) deputy sheriff in "Walking Tall" (1973)
Exactly, except that's not Lombard, it's Vermont between 20th and 22nd.
One of the best cop movies is Bullitt, from 1968, with Steve McQueen. It also took place in San Fransisco, and has the best car chase of all time (other than Blues Brothers). Definitely worth a watch. No series, just the one movie.
Good to see your second Dirty Harry reaction. The original is one of my top 10 movies, but i'm definitely a fan of the others too, i hope you watch the rest. I also recommend another Clint Eastwood cop film, The Gauntlet.
Love The Gauntlet, one of the best 70s car chase genre.
That's the pre loma preita quake Hwy 280 southbound a little bit before you get to the 101/280 split--certain times of the week, the freeway WAS that empty. The man playing Ricca's lawyer (who gets smoked along with Ricca and the driver) was my high school English teacher, Maurice Argent.
The blonde shot in the swimming pool was Suzanne Sommers from Three's Company
Love this sequel, I find it way more action packed than the original. The stunt work in this film is also way more intense and the story had a lot more of a mystery element and more moving parts. Enjoyed the reaction, hope you finsh the Dirty Harry series.
The Enforcer (next in the series) is my second favorite (after Dirty Harry). I highly recommend it. I'd also recommend Clint as a down-and-out cop in The Gauntlet.
I like The Gauntlet, but I have to admit it's brainless action from beginning to end.
Another good Cop movie of his is The Gauntlet.
Kinda like Dirty Harry but isn't.
Also stars Sandra Locke who stars with him in the "Every which way but loose" Movies...
I love these films. I'd say Dirty Harry and Magnum Force are great, The Enforcer is good and The Dead Pool & Sudden Impact are both OK 🥰🥰🥰
The first Dirty Harry was criticized by critics as being fascist. Magnum Force is essentially Eastwood’s response, with Harry facing essentially mirror images of himself.
I hope you watch them all, "The Enforcer" has some good dialogue.
Great reaction, as usual. It's always nice re-watching these old favorites through your new eyes. All the Dirty Harry movies have some great catch line in them. The original was "I know what you're thinking..." This one is "A Man's got to know his limitations" Sudden Impact, the 4th in the series was actually quoted by President Ronald Reagan at the time. :)
'Go ahead, make my day'...yes. It's just sad that Warner Bros have stooped to re-grading these classic movies, adding new shitty teal and orange current color schemes to the point they're almost unwatchable now, if familiar with their original state. It's actually robbing them of their true feel, this way of trying to modernize 50 years old movies for today's audiences, i.e. one must keep the older DVDs now for the originals.
Excellent choice, guys.
The first three movies make a great trilogy.
Great reaction! I’m glad you two enjoyed this. Always astute analysis. Each Dirty Harry movie is different . The ‘Dirty Harry ‘ movies were the template for subsequent movies featuring the main character cop who was unorthodox in his methods and always at odds with his superiors. Please keep going with your viewing of these movies, cheers! :-)
All the Dirty Harry movies are worth seeing. But The Dead Pool is my favorite of the next three (it has a very different car chase and Jim Carrey in an early role). However, Sudden Impact might have his best lines. Including one that was referenced by President Ronald Reagan.
BTW the four motorcycle cops were played by David Soul who went on to play Hutch in the TV series Starsky and Hutch, Robert Urich who starred in the TV series Vegas and played Spenser in Spenser for Hire, and Tim Matheson who starred in the movie Animal House (he was also the voice of Jonny Quest). I never saw the other guy in anything else I remember.
Also, a young Liam Neeson starred in The Dead Pool...
Many years before "Spenser", Robert Urich had already become very popular for his role in the Tv series "SWAT" (the original one from the 70s)...
"A man's got to know his limitations." --- Wise advice for us all...
The Blond cop, David Soul had a hit song, Don't give up on us in 1976.
Kip Niven, David Soul, Robert Urich and Tim Matheson played the rookies/vigilantes. Niven, Soul and Urich became huge stars probably from this movie. Matheson had been acting since he was a kid. He was also the voice of the 60s cartoon Johnny Quest.
The third DH movie, "The Enforcer" is my favorite of the series. He gets paired up with actress Tyne Daly and there a few more whimsical moments. Plus an epic shootout at the end.
His partner was character actor Felton Perry. He was in Robocop, Robocop 2, and Robocop 3, and he was in the first Walking Tall with Joe Don Baker that same year.
Hell yea. One of my favorite movies.
Old Clint Eastwood movies rule in general
Love watching you guys watch these classics! I have a recommendation, you may not have heard of, The Warriors (1979). A classic, with an awesome disco/electro/rock soundtrack.
Just watch the original theatrical release, not the later director's cut.
@@themoviedealers I like both versions.
"The Enforcer" (1976) is next!
Eastwood has some great movies you guys should add to your list; excluding his legendary westerns, try escape from alcatraz, any which way but loose and the sequel any which way you can, thunderbolt and lightfoot, heartbreak ridge, in the line of fire, a perfect world, the Bridges of madison County. His directorial efforts are equally magnificent. This guy is a Phenom and deserves all plaudits that come his way
I was in college in the 70's. Women were incredibly aggressive and empowered to get what they wanted and not apologize for it. It was great. 😁
Movies I grew up with. Still good. Reminds me of the great car chase movies. Bullitt, French Connection, Seven Ups, etc.
Another 'fun' watch with the two of ya, so thanks for that.
It would be cool if ya kept on with the Eastwood body of work, even past the Harry flicks. Some stuff he's directed are good additions as well, like Absolute Power, Pale Rider, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...
That blond guy, David Soul, was Detective Hutch in the hit 70's TV series Starsky & Hutch (75-79). He also had some songs in the charts around 1977 - 'Silver Lady' and 'Don't Give Up On Us'.
Bit of trivia - Last week was the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the TSA. They're the ones responsible for the metal detectors and all of the other security you have to go through in order to reach the gate at the airport.
The reason the TSA was created was that in 1971 alone, there were 29 airplane highjackings in the USA.
After the creation of the TSA, that number fell to three in 1972.
An early 90s Konami video game, Lethal Enforcers, took some inspiration from Magnum Force. The intro in the video game was similar to the movie and if you got a magnum, the announcer would say magnum force.
Looking forward to the next Dirty Harry movie, The Enforcer, has my favorite Harry police partner.
Keep going with the Dirty Harry movies. I'd like for you to watch the 3 remaining movies.
Amazing sequel Magnum Force starring by Clint Eastwood. Thank you TBR Schmitt and don't forget reacts all Dirty Harry sequels The Enforcer, Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool
Fun Fact: The blonde rookie at the shooting range (6:30) is David Soul, famous for playing Hutch in Starsky & Hutch.
The 3rd movie The Enforcer has kind of the Charles Mansion family under tone plot to it. Magnum Force and the fourth movie Sudden Impact were the best ones. The music in Sudden Impact and Harry's one liners are the best of the series.
I’m just the opposite. I love the first three but don’t care for the last two.
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The main antagonists in the third film were based on the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), much like Scorpio in the first film was a reference to the Zodiac Killer.
I think most of the Dirty Harry films music was composed by the great Lalo Shifrin
It's crazy how many stunts Clint did himself. Hal Holbrook mentioned on a documentary that he was worried going down the "snake road" because Clint was driving a bit too fast on the sharp turns. I still prefer the first as the best, but this is good sequel regardless.
TBR
Two of the cops are played by Tim Matheson and David Soul while other was played by Robert Urich who died in 2002 of cancer at the age of 55.
Tim starred in National Lampoon's Animal House as Otter. David is well-known for TV Cop's series called Starsky and Hutch. Robert had a career in both TV and movies such as TV's Vegas.
Keep watching. Dirty Harry is a classic cinematic character. It would be worth continuing the series just to see how you react to The Enforcer since the plot of that is having to break in yet another new partner lol and then how you feel about the universally praised Sudden Impact, to seeing your reaction at a young Jim Carrey & Liam Neeson in The Dead Pool (no relation to Deadpool lol).
And Carrey would also be in Pink Cadillac (1989).