Feb. 25, 2026

Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry Returns in Magnum Force (1973)

Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry Returns in Magnum Force (1973)
Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry Returns in Magnum Force (1973)
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Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry Returns in Magnum Force (1973)
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Season 2

Dirty Harry is back on the streets of San Francisco — but this time, the danger may be coming from inside the badge.

In this episode of The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck and Matt return to 1973 to revisit Magnum Force, the second outing for Clint Eastwood’s iconic Inspector Harry Callahan. Directed by Ted Post and featuring Hal Holbrook, Felton Perry, and a squad of suspiciously eager young officers played by Tim Matheson, David Soul, Robert Urich, and Kip Niven, the film shifts the Dirty Harry formula into murkier moral territory.

The hosts dig into the film’s production background, including John Milius’s story and screenplay with additional contributions from Michael Cimino, and discuss how the sequel responds directly to criticisms of the original Dirty Harry. They break down the performances, the famous action set pieces (yes — including that airport sequence), and the film’s central question: what happens when the system Harry defends starts to look just as dangerous as the criminals?

Plus:

  • Why Hal Holbrook’s casting is both interesting and debatable
  • The “dirty cops” twist and whether it still works
  • Harry’s expanded personal life and what it adds to the character
  • The sequel vs. original debate
  • And, of course… Did it groove or lose its beat?
Strap in, check your six, and join us as we revisit Magnum Force — a sequel that aims to hit harder and think deeper.

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Simply is no other way. Inspector, you, of all people,

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should understand that either you're four us or you're against us.

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I'm afraid you've misjudged me.

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Welcome to the Cinematic Flashback Podcast. Get ready to hop

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into the wayback machine as we journey through the wildfold

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and unforgettable films of the nineteen seventies. Each episode, we

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break down a classic movie or a forgotten jim see

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how it performed then and now, and wrap things up

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by asking did a group of the decades or did it.

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Use its speak?

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I am your host, Chuck Brian, and today we are

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returning to the streets of San Francisco to ride along

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with Harry Callahan in nineteen seventy three Magnum Force, starring

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Clint Eastwood and Hal Holbrook. Joining me is my rookie

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partner who hopes to make it to the next movie.

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Is Matt Sergeant Matt. I was really worried about adding

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another sequel to this lineup, but how could we possibly

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not go back to Dirty Harry?

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Absolutely, Although you know I'm not a big huge fan

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of sequels, in this particular case, we've got to give

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a pass because Dirty Harry, Dirty Harry nineteen seventy three,

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let's see, would have been twelve years old. My older brother,

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who I've talked about before, was a devout spaghetti Western fan,

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mostly because of Clint Eastwood, and Dirty Harry was a

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modern interpretation of that same Western motif, the sole law

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man or outlaw, living by a code and handing out

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justice and good loving.

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You know when the final Dirty Harry film, Deadpool came

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out in nineteen eighty eight, I was twenty at that time,

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and I remember going to the local Blockbuster Video and

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rented Dirty Harry Magnum Force the Enforcer in Sudden Impact,

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just to prepare myself to see Deadpool, And looking back,

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actually watched it, and I remember liking it more than

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the others. The runtime was definitely longer than all the

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other ones. It clocked in about two hours. Do we

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have any listener feedback this week?

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We sure do. DP sixty seven left us a five

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their take on more Clint Eastwood films. Play Misty for

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Me and the other two nineteen seventies Dirty Hairy Pictures. Well,

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DP sixty seven, we're delivering today on some of that,

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our other listeners. Do you want your review read on

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the air like DP sixty seven. Well, it's simple. After

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leave your comment. Be it good or bad. We may

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just read it right here on the pod, but please

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make it interesting. A man needs to know his limitations.

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Very very good, Matt, Hey, thank you DP sixty seven.

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I know I would love to cover play Misty for Me.

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I don't know if you remember in Dirty Harry, Matt

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Play Misty for Me was on the marquis of one

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of the movie theaters that Harry walks by. And we

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definitely will review The Enforcer from nineteen seventy six. Now,

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before we get into Magnum Force, we need to take

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a quick break and we will see you on the

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other side.

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Eastwood is back in full force as Dirty Harry and

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Magnum Force as Jimmy Riley Big Time racketeer, lou Gusman,

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narcotics king.

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JJ Wilson, well known pimp.

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There are killers on the loose, dressed like cops, and

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they always use a magnum.

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You and your partner are back on homicide. It's a

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little dramatic, isn't it, Briggs, not your usual style. It's

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meant to be, Callahan. Look, this thing might be bigger

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than even we think it is. This is the cream

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in the bottle. Callahan. Someone's trying to put the courts

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out of business. But you work with Briggs on this galahand.

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They call him dirty Harry and likes to do things

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his way.

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He's always around where the action is.

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In twenty four hours, Harry manages to cover a stakeout,

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to stop a robbery, and to be a good neighbor.

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Hi Here the couple lives upstairs.

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That's right.

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But chillers that look like cops are after Harry because

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he knows too much.

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Whenever there's trouble, they always call in Harry because they

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know he'll do the job.

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It's all in a day's work for Inspector Harry Callahan.

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And that was the trailer to Magnum Force. Matt let's

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get into the production. Magnum Force was produced by Clint

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Eastwoods production company mal Pass and directed by Ted Post

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had directed one of the sequels we mentioned over in

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our French connection to episode. It was nineteen seventies Beneath

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the Planet of the Apes. Returning to compose the film

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score was Leilo Schiffren. Magnum Force had a budget of

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around seven million dollars, but it grossed forty four million

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and was released in late December of nineteen seventy three.

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The story was by John Millius. And we last talked

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about John in the Apocalypse Now episode, and Matt, I

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want to tell you Millius is a really interesting character.

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He's a contemporary of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Francis

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for a Coppola.

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I'm John Millius.

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I'm a filmmaker, a historian, and a storyteller. John Millius

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had more movies made than any writer in history of holiday.

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He was really one of the first guys who said, hey,

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this is how people talk.

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He doesn't write for women.

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He writes for men because he's a man.

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If you haven't watched the documentary that's called milliuse you

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can watch the documentary on Pluto. So Milius also wrote

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the screenplay, but ted Post brought in Michael Chimino, who

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we last talked about in our Deer Hunter episode, to

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add additional material. While I was researching this, I learned

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that mal passo is Spanish for bad step. We might

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call it a misstep. In fact, that is what Clint

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Eastwood's agent told him when Eastwood took the role of

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the Man with No Name from a fist full of dollars.

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This will be a bad step for your career, Clint.

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I think his agent was wrong.

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His agent was definitely wrong. I think those low budget

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westerns kept him working and refining his skills, something you

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see for the rest of his career, particularly how he

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ran his movie shoots when he became a director. No

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lost time on budget and did not waste a monk.

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being an actor's director. Yeah, and I think going to

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Italy during a time when it was kind of hard

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to get roles and things like that, it instilled into

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him a lot of respect for the process and how

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hard you should be working to do this. This is

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an honor to be an actor. And star in these

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films and you should give it your all. So that's

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one of the other reasons I really enjoy Clint Eastwood

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and his movies.

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He's an icon, Okay, whether he's in front of the camera,

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whether he's behind the camera, Clint Eastwood is legend, and

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he plays in different genres, including comedy. I don't know

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if you remember any which way but loose or every

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which way you can with the Big Orangutang with Clyde

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the Orangutang, right turn Clyde. Well, let's get into the

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actors in this film. So we were just speaking about

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Clint Eastwood, and of course I had a smile on

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my face, like I was returned to a friend when

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he shows up at the first crime scene with his

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new partner and he's walking down because like he still

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has the same swagger that he ended Dirty Harry with.

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Yeah, and for me, it's you know, of course, it's awesome.

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He shows up with his new partner the night and

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his faithful squire assisting him. So I'm not sure if

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you realize that the whole premise of this film was

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a response to some of the backlash that Dirty Harry

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had received about being too violent and maybe having echoes

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of fascism. They wanted Harry to be solidly on the

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side of law and order, warts and all, you know,

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not the perfect system, but the best system we have

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at the time, and that was conveyed pretty well because

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Harry was facing off against a whole group of dirty cops.

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Looks like somebody saved the taxpayer's a lot of money,

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doesn't it.

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Callahan, what are you doing here? You're a load of stakeout.

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Oh we had nothing hot on the size of were close,

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but Callahan, you get back to that stakeout squad. Anything

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else should call it in.

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Harry now has a new lieutenant in Magnum Force. It's

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actor how Wholebrook as Lieutenant Briggs Matt. I'm going to

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tell you Halbrook is one of those actors that when

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you see him, he always seems to play like the grandfather,

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the nice guy, and so whenever he plays against type,

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like he did in Capricorn one, you're just like, ooh,

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he's a real mean son of a bee. You know,

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how about you? What did you think of how Holbrook

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in this film?

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I'm not sure one hundred percent by it. When he

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does the heavy it always seems like, you know, your

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sainted grandfather, you know, coming down hard on you and

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then giving you another cookie. Yeah, I do. I love

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how Holbrook, but you know, it's a little iconoclassic, I think.

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And I hate to say this because I think he's

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a great actor. It's nothing against him, but I think

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they could have picked somebody different that would have been

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a little bit more on the edge, which would have

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kept us guessing a little bit more early, because at

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the beginning you're a little bit blindsided by this character

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because you think he's, you know, a very straight and

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narrow type guy. I think the film would have been

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better if right off bat you were like, am I

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quite sure about this guy? Yeah? And you know, so

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it would have been interesting. But how Wholebrook. I think

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he's a great actor, There's no two ways about it.

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He's been in a million things, He's played a million

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types of people. But I just, like I said, I

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don't hundred percent by his heavy portrayal. Although he's been

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sort of, you know, the bad guy in a number

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of things. Even when he was in the West Wing,

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it was kind of kind of a snarky guy, I

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think to some extent.

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Well, one day we're going to review Capricorn Wine.

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I have never seen that film, so that would be

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a first thing. That's great for me.

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It's a good film. You're going to like him. He

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also plays Deep Throat in All the President's Men, which

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we're going to review this November. So okay tuned?

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Yeah, Matt.

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There were two familiar faces joining the San Francisco Police Department.

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David soul You might remember him as Hutch in Starsky

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and Hutch and he was also in an episode of

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Star Trek. He played Officer Davis. And Robert Urick played

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the lead in nineteen eighty four's The Ice Pirates, which

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Deaf Dave is going to cover on his nineteen eighty

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four series Stay Tuned. And private investigator Dan Tanna in

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the TV show Vegas was Officer Grimes. Matt, did you

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ever tune into Starsky and Hutch back in the.

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Day, Oh, for sure, and Vegas as well. They were

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both big favorites. We watched him when they came on.

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My mom was My mom was a big fan of Vegas.

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She really loved seeing Robert Urick and Starsky and Hutch

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is a little bit more not her speed, although she

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was always a police drama person. She loved that stuff,

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so that was fun. We would watch it. I will say, though,

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that you left out Tim Matheson, who was how could

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I do him? Would be horrified. Look.

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I kept looking at him, thinking I know him from somewhere,

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and for whatever reason, I didn't catch his name in

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the credits, and I'm like, I know him from somewhere.

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Where do I know him from? You know him from

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Animal House? And unbelievably, I was just looking him up

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because I was like, hey, I know that guy from

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Animal House. And you look at his filmography and he

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has been in a ton of stuff, and this one

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blew me away. He was Johnny Quest. He was a

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child actor Johnny Quest.

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Wow, which is crazy.

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And he ended up being lifelong friends with Kurt Russell

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and they were friends basically their entire lives and it's

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pretty amazing. Now, I will tell you that I also

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am a big fan of Tim Matheson because he appears

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in a romance series at my wife and I watch

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it is definitely sort of candy, you know, kind of

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silly little romance series called Virgin River, and he's the

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crotchety old doctor in Virgin River and he does a

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great job in that role, and really it's fun to

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see him continue to have such a rich and long

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lasting career because you know, he really he really did well.

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I think he originally. I think in my research I

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found that he took this role because he had just

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come out of comedies and kind of lightweight stuff and

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he wanted to have a dramatic role.

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I know him from Animal House and as I recall,

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you paraphrased Otter in our Jaws game show episode.

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Thought you pre med what's the difference ladies and gentlemen.

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I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether my

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uncle broke a few rules or allowed a shark to

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take a few liberties with our summer guests. He did,

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but you can't hold him responsible for the behavior of

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a few sick twisted sharks. For if you do, then

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shouldn't we blame the whole summer vacation system.

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Nice work, Matt. Nice And what was funny was when

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you said that I was not catching the reference because

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my brain was spending trying to figure out what what

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you were doing? Uh, and then everyone else was just

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dying on that one.

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Yeah, that was it. That was a fun one. We

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have to do that again. We got toze. That was yeah,

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that was that was great fun. It was pretty darn funny.

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Your friends they were spot on. They had so much

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detail and they were so funny. Trust them, they're professionals.

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So finally, Felton Perry played Arlington Smith, better known as

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Detective Early Smith. He is Harry's latest partner with.

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You and Briggs anyway jealousy.

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He knows this is the kind of case I should

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be on.

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It's just a matter of time.

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Early, you want to get in on this.

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Was that about, Oh, they're probably giving uds and how

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long you'll stay alive?

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And my partner?

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Oh you kidding?

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Nope?

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How long the last partner go?

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A couple of weeks.

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Don't worry, he's still alive teaching college.

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And I best know Felton Perry from the RoboCop series.

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He played Johnson. It's also worth noting that Angie Boyling,

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who was the wife that throws herself at Harry, played

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the wife of Alex Murphy in the RoboCop series. Matt

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How did Early Smith stack up against Harry's last partner,

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Chico gonzales.

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I think he stacked up well. He handled he portrayed

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handling himself really well in the stakeout and robbery scenes.

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I think he was believable. He was a good guy.

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He really had Harry's back at matthink he was a

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great He was a great partner. I will say this

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about Felton is that I went and I did not

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know much about him, and I looked up his IMDb

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and the guy has been a working actor forever, a

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wonderful career of lots and lots of roles. You mentioned RoboCop.

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He played in a lot of TV sitcoms. He worked,

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and that's cool because I thought he was a good actor.

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Before we finish, I want to mention actor Albert Popwell,

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who played the role of the Pimp. The last time

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we saw Popwell in a Dirty Hairy film. His character

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was laying on his back staring up the barrel of

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a forty four magnum.

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I know what you're thinking, did he fire six shots

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or only five?

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Well, I'll tell you the truth.

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In all this excitement, I have kind of lost track myself,

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But he in this forty four magnum, the most powerful

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handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off.

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You get to ask yourself one question, do I feel lucky? Well?

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Do you bunk.

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Hey?

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I got to know, and he would return as yet

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another character in The Enforcer in Sudden Impact. Popwell first

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worked with Eastwood on Coogan's Bluff and Eastwood was so

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impressed by him he asked him to be part of

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his repertoire company and he used him in so many

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of his films.

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Oh, that's an amazing anecdote, Chuck. Are we ready to

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I'll be back, Welcome Back. The movie starts with a

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high ranking member of the San Francisco Mob when his

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case gets thrown out on a technicality. His car is

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pulled over by a motorcycle patrolman who unholsters his side

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arm and shoots all of the occupants, the driver, the lawyer,

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and even the mob boss.

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I'll push back a little bit on that. In the

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first scene, we really only see their legs. We don't

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know if it's someone impersonating a cop. There's a lot

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of question that they don't show the person's face, they

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don't even show their real outline. They really concentrate on

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the boots and the back of the guy.

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Because he's wearing the glasses, right aviator glasses, and the helmet.

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So it appears to be a traffic cop. But at

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that point, you know, you're obviously saying, well, no graphic

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cop would be doing that. It's unthinkable, right, at least

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that's what the audience is thinking. So you're giving you're like, hmm,

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I'm not sure if that's one hundred percent what's happening

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that at least that's my take on it.

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So your take is that maybe this is a serial

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killer who is now dressing up like a traffic cop

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and going around.

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Yes, yes, okay, that's what I was thinking in this

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first scene, because it really you get very little information

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except for this mob boss gets out on a technicality.

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It could have been another mob boss taken their opportunity

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to get rid of them, could have been a lot

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of different things. There's a lot of variables there. To me,

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at least we hadn't immediately said dirty cops. At least

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that's it was for me.

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And it's in the investigation of this crime scene is

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where Dirty Harry and Early come up and we have

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our first encounter with Briggs. So they had moved Dirty

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Harry from homicide over to stakeout, maybe to kind of

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minimize his impact, and we see that Lieutenant Briggs and

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Harry Callahan are actually butting heads here.

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Yeah, it's as though a new administrator comes in and

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he's shuffled his most problem child off to stakouts and

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to keep them out of action on this And at

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that point it's to me it's quite innocent because it

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came out of the original movie where Harry had shot

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up a bunch of people, so it's pretty reasonable that,

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you know, maybe they're going to put him off into

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some duty that keeps him from having to pull his

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gun out. And during this interaction with them, there is

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some talk about how the lieutenant is proud he's never

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pulled his gun in his twenty some odd years, and

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that's when Harry delivers the punchline.

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Man, whoever did this was very.

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Good at it.

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You would sure be the one to know, Harry.

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Well, I just worked as City Briggs, so.

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Do I longer than you, and I never had to

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take my gun out of its holster once.

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I'm proud of that.

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You're a good man, Lieutenant good Man always knows his limitations.

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The some of the punchline, it's not that you were

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good because you didn't pull your gun out. It's because

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you literally are terrible and you have never had to

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pull your gun out, so it's a pretty devastating blow.

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Or maybe he's never been in a position where he's

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had to pull this gun out. Maybe he's been always

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kind of a desk jockey or something along those lines

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that if you've worked this many years in the forest

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and never had to draw your side arm right.

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And the best part is we see this interaction doubly

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funny because later on in the movie it is foreshadowing

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another time that that's the same line as delivered. And

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when you watch the movie you'll know exactly what I'm

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talking about it you will really enjoy it.

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Now, I have to mention the airport scene because I

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think the airport scene mirrored Dirty Harry's bank robbery seen it,

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because you remember the one key characteristic was that Harry

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was walking down the street a hot dog in one hand,

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a hand cannon in the other. But this time he's

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got a hamburger, and it's not a bank robbery, it's

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a jet hijacking.

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Yes, it wouldn't be a quote unquote Dirty Harry movie

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if you didn't put him into a position where fortune

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favors the bold, because clearly that's what we're seeing here,

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is that he's a man of action and they're standing

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around basically go what are we going to do? Or

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waiting for the FBI. They're not going to be here.

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It's a hijacking. Dot da da. And the last scene

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you see Harry before the action starts to take place,

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as he's like, may I make a suggestion.

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That's right, lieutenant, we were lucky enough to have one

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of your men here.

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He's on board. Now an inspector. Callahan, Callahan, here's me, Captain. No,

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that's my sounds silly, but can you fly?

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Nope, ever had lessons.

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I forgot about how far along he went with this

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whole guise of flying the plane. It's hilarious, it's really funny.

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And then, of course, you know, the typical dirty Harry

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action ensues which he uses his handcannon to shoot through

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a wall and bring down one of the hijackers after

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he disables the hijacker in the cockpit.

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So before we move on to our next topic, the

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last scene in this first act is the hit at

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the mop pool party, where again, and I'm going to say,

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now to your point, we have another traffic cop. He

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has his helmet, he has his shades, and this time

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he throws a satchel that has both a smoke grenade

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and a bomb into a pool. I'm assuming it's another

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mob party. It's not just some random group of people

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having a party. You know, he's taking out someone else.

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And there was a cameo in that scene, and I

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don't know if you caught her.

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I did not.

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Suzanne Summers, who played in Three's Company, was the bathing

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beauty who started out in a blue bikini, but in

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the unedited version of this film lost her top somehow.

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I may have been concentrating on something else and didn't

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notice that was Suzanne Summers. That funny, I do remember that,

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But at the same time, you still don't really realize

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it could be someone pretending to be a cop at

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this point as well, until you follow Harry with this

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investigation and he starts to put together some things.

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And that's the subject of topic two, because topic two

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has to do with our returning at Albert Popwell, this

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time playing the pimp, and as we learned in Clute,

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pimps do not get the dates. They just take the

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money and apparently pour Dreno down the throats of his ladies.

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Harry begins to suspect that it just might be a

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traffic cop because the pimp had his wallet out with

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his driver's license and one hundred dollars bill ready to

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bribe the traffic cop. Matt I liked that at this

463
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point we knew something that Harry is now really begin

464
00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:40.680
to suspect, and it turns the investigation potentially from cop

465
00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:44.079
versus a criminal to a cop versus a cop. He's

466
00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:48.119
starting to suspect that this might not be an outside job.

467
00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:50.880
Yeah, and I think they did a good job in

468
00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:54.000
the film, kind of like Harry keeping at a little

469
00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:56.559
bit to himself. He doesn't really even share it with

470
00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:00.240
his partner, and we see that because he starts to

471
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:04.559
make things happen to help him investigate it.

472
00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:09.160
So we haven't talked about the characters of David Soul

473
00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:11.519
and Robert Urick and Tim Madison.

474
00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:14.839
You boys, rookie, Yes.

475
00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:17.440
Sir, traffic, I'm John Davis.

476
00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:21.759
He just feels sweet as red astra Chan, Mike Grimes.

477
00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:24.160
You Inspector, Harry Callahan.

478
00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:24.319
Aren't you?

479
00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:26.480
That's right? What are you doing here at this hour?

480
00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:27.799
Don't you have regular times for this?

481
00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:29.839
Well, you shouldn't be on a street these days.

482
00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:32.359
If you can't shoot, well, colors don't make allowances.

483
00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.720
You're a big trible can't vould you there?

484
00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:36.279
So?

485
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:38.240
Are you shooting in the Combat Championship next week?

486
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:38.599
Now?

487
00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:40.279
We's do winever year, don't you.

488
00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:42.319
It's done sort of an institution.

489
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.480
Around here, Yes, sir, we've heard all about you.

490
00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:48.920
I think they're fresh out of the academy or they're

491
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:50.279
newly minted, if you will.

492
00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:50.960
Yeah.

493
00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:54.079
And by the time they get to the shooting competition,

494
00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:59.200
Harry is already suspecting that it might be a traffic cop,

495
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:03.000
and he has reason to start believing that it might

496
00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:08.960
be related to these younger cops. You had a good guy.

497
00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:10.200
He had a bad break.

498
00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:13.160
I really don't deserve it. Oh you won, didn't it? Well, yes, sir,

499
00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:22.359
that's something It matters mind if I try that one? Yeah, Chester,

500
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:23.720
how about six?

501
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:41.440
Huh?

502
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:42.440
Not bad?

503
00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:44.039
I seem to have lost last time.

504
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:46.319
You get used to it.

505
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:51.200
And Harry does something that I didn't understand what he

506
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:56.319
was doing at the time, but he takes Officer Davis's

507
00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:00.920
gun and uses that and he shoots around into the

508
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:01.680
window jam.

509
00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:06.359
So he suspected these new guys, And interesting enough, they

510
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:10.640
had been in I think Tim Matheson's character mentions that

511
00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:14.279
he had got his weapons training in the Special Forces,

512
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:17.960
so clearly they know their way around a gun. And

513
00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:21.759
in the combat competition, the first guy goes out does

514
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:24.640
really really well, Harry goes out. The last one comes up.

515
00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:27.440
It's a cop and Harry shoots him right in the head,

516
00:29:28.119 --> 00:29:31.599
and so Harry loses the competition. And I personally believe

517
00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:34.680
he shot the facade of the cop on purpose so

518
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:37.759
that he would lose and could then talk to the guy,

519
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:39.960
wouldn't run off because he had to be there because

520
00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:43.000
he's going to win. He would be able to get

521
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:44.599
a hold of that guy's gun and say, let me

522
00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:47.039
try that. That's a great gun. And really with the

523
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:50.680
intention of actually shooting that gun into the door jam.

524
00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:54.440
Obviously you kind of get the point that Harry didn't

525
00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:58.680
miss anything by mistake. He did everything on purpose.

526
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:04.279
Well, I don't know if you recognized Officer Di Georgia,

527
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:07.359
who was the first person that they showed going through.

528
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:10.960
He was the heavy set officer. Yes, he was from

529
00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:13.559
the first Dirty Harry film. They called him. They called

530
00:30:13.640 --> 00:30:17.839
him Fatso I was like, okay, there's another there's another

531
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:21.559
returning character to the to the film. But he uses

532
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:25.119
that slug that he retrieves in the evening to compare

533
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:28.920
against and he's making a match right based on the rifling,

534
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:33.200
his suspicions are definitely peaked. Before we end this topic,

535
00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:35.559
I did want to say one of the things that

536
00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:39.279
I liked about this film is that they gave Harry

537
00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:42.880
a little bit more space to breathe, so we got

538
00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:45.160
to see his hit where he lives. We got to

539
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.079
see him interacting with a young lady who he meets.

540
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:49.839
Hi.

541
00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:54.440
Hi, what's your name?

542
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:55.519
Sunny?

543
00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:00.359
You know I've been living here almost six months now, Honey,

544
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:01.440
I've never met you before.

545
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:03.720
Oh, well, I work a lot.

546
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:07.640
I know you're the couple lives upstairs.

547
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:08.279
That's right.

548
00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:10.519
Mind if I ask you a question?

549
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:14.240
Oh go ahead, what does a girl have to do

550
00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:22.839
to go to bed with you? Try knocking on the door.

551
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:29.240
Since it wasn't as frenetic as the last film, there

552
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:32.480
is some time for Harry to interact with his neighbor.

553
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:36.160
Like you said, there's a love interest, and he ultimately

554
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:38.920
saves her life by you know, there was a bomb

555
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:42.559
that was planted in his mailbox and he discovers it

556
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:45.279
because he's very suspicious. And then he runs down and

557
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:47.519
stops her from collecting his mail because she was going

558
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:50.440
to pick up some beers and collect his mail for him,

559
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:53.200
because he, you know, he had been beat up a

560
00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:54.920
little bit and had a cut and stuff like that,

561
00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:56.319
and she was going to take care of him, which

562
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:58.519
is a real change for that. He also had that

563
00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:02.240
interaction with with Charles, his friend who's the motorcycle cop,

564
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:05.960
and ultimately he knows that Charlie's having some mental problems

565
00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.640
and he's worried about him, and he ultimately thinks it's

566
00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:11.200
actually his friend that's doing the killing, but then he

567
00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:14.920
finds out that his friend has been murdered. He also

568
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:18.880
has an interaction with that friend's wife, who kind of

569
00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:23.400
throws herself at him. You know that he successfully thwarts that,

570
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:26.039
I think in loyalty to his friends.

571
00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:28.079
Which showed his character. You know, even though Charlie and

572
00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:30.759
his wife were separated, they were still married and he

573
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:31.920
was still respecting her.

574
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:34.119
Yes, I think that's that's true.

575
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:37.720
Let's move on to our last topic. The big reveal

576
00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.200
in the third act the four cops were actually being

577
00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:46.759
led by Lieutenant Briggs to take out high level criminals

578
00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:51.599
the entire time. Does this twist work in the film

579
00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:57.119
for you? Well, for me, there's there's really two reveals.

580
00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:59.839
The first reveal is all four of those cops con

581
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.640
front Harry and basically tell him he needs to join him,

582
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:06.480
and that's when Harry.

583
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:10.799
Delivers I'm afraid you misjudged me. And then shortly after

584
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:12.759
that is when he finds the bomb and he calls

585
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.839
lieutenant says, send him, send a unit over to Early's house,

586
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.960
you know, to make sure he's safe. And the lieutenant says,

587
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:21.960
I'll come over and get you right now. He picks

588
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.319
up Harry, and this is when the reveal you're talking

589
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:30.160
about is, Yes, he's in the car, he's driving, and

590
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:31.680
the lieutenant.

591
00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:34.680
Shows drawn his gun for the fir Cross's.

592
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.720
Gun, and of course I think Harry says something like

593
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:41.480
it's the first time for everything or something, Yeah, is

594
00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:44.599
it your first time or somethings. It was something fun,

595
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:47.039
It was something that makes it great. It makes it great.

596
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:51.279
The gun's out of its hallst brakes. First time. You

597
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:53.519
know you're not going to city hall, Callahan. The only

598
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:55.359
way you're going anywhere is in a rubber bag.

599
00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:00.160
Then there's the big cars chase and motorcycle chase, and

600
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.720
it's very exciting. Yeah, I liked it.

601
00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:05.799
It reminded me of that TV show The Streets of

602
00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:09.000
San Francisco, the opening where the car jumps up and

603
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.679
it's going over the hill, so you get a bunch

604
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:10.880
of that.

605
00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:13.920
Yeah. One of the things I wanted to point out

606
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:18.320
about that exactly. It's always a tourist attraction when you

607
00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:21.960
go to San Francisco down the curviest road in the

608
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:27.519
United States. Lombardo's well, if you watch this movie, that

609
00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:31.360
road is decrepit. Yeah, all the grass around it, there's

610
00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:35.280
no plantings. You go there, now, it's a guard beautiful. Yeah,

611
00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:38.079
you actually have to pay to go down it. It's

612
00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:41.519
like and it's beautiful, but in this scene, it's just

613
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:44.559
a mess. It looks like, yeahs terrible, right.

614
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:48.079
Somebody decided that, hey, this has been in enough films

615
00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:50.719
that we can make it look really really nice here

616
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:51.559
for you exactly.

617
00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:54.519
My sister and brother in law live on the Presidio

618
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:58.280
and they are very very close to where that road is,

619
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.440
so we have gone and seen it a couple so

620
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.760
it's very cool. The other thing I really liked is

621
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:04.800
I don't know if you know it, but the company

622
00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:08.920
I'm not working for made a donation to Nauticus and

623
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.559
they put a camera system into the USS Wisconsin. So

624
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:15.400
we have been going over there and maintaining that system.

625
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:18.920
So I have visited the USS Wisconsin many times in

626
00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:21.360
the last year. And one of the funny things is

627
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.000
in this scene we're going through a carrier, but I'm

628
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:27.239
telling you, like destroyer from World War Two or a

629
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:32.000
carrier from shortly thereafter, they look exactly the same inside.

630
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:34.920
So it was really funny. When they're chasing them around,

631
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:37.440
we're inside of that navy ship. I'm like, this is

632
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:38.800
just like being into Wisconsin.

633
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:41.480
One of the things at the end, Harry does not

634
00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:42.199
have a gun.

635
00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:44.800
Yeah, he didn't have gun the whole time.

636
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:46.880
He didn't have a gun the whole time, and he

637
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.199
has to dispatch the cops in different ways. I'll let

638
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:54.079
the viewer watch how that happens, because they're all quite

639
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:57.599
it's interesting, it's unique and clever. And then he has

640
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:02.400
his final showdown with Lieutenant Briggs, and I won't say how,

641
00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:07.320
but Lieutenant Briggs also is taken care of by the

642
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:09.239
ending of the film.

643
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:12.320
Yeah, yeah, I think all of that whole ending scene

644
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:14.760
was really cool because he just didn't pull out the

645
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:18.440
handcanon and start just offing people. He really had to

646
00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:22.320
be this experienced cop, because Harry makes a comment about

647
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:25.880
those new guys saying, yep, they just didn't seem to

648
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:27.000
have enough experience.

649
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:31.480
I think when it's all said and done, Harry had

650
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.679
ten confirmed kills in this film, and I think the

651
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:40.719
four young cops had about twenty four kills in this one,

652
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:45.199
So take that with a grain of salt. Yeah, Matt,

653
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:47.920
are we ready to ask the question I think we are.

654
00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:50.880
Does Magnum four still groove today or did it lose

655
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:51.360
its beat?

656
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:52.639
What do you think, Chuck?

657
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:56.840
You know a part of me was missing Don Siegel

658
00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:59.880
in this film. I'm not sure I like Ted post

659
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:02.880
direction as much as I really like Don Siegel, but

660
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:06.719
that's kind of the whole you know, William Freakin versus

661
00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:10.519
John Frankenheimer on the French Connection in French Connection too.

662
00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:17.360
But this film is still surprisingly good and it looked great.

663
00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:20.280
We don't get a rehash of the first film. And

664
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:22.519
you know, we talked about how Dirty Harry takes a

665
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:27.000
position that to me was a little bit surprising, so

666
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:31.079
I thought we might have seen him leading this death squad.

667
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:35.079
But it turned out that they added more dimension to

668
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:38.639
the character of Dirty Harry, let you know, letting us

669
00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:41.639
into his private life a bit. And the Dirty Harry

670
00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:45.039
films are all about action, and the last act of

671
00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:49.559
this film does not disappoint for me. Magnum Force grooves

672
00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.519
through the weight and the Recoil of a forty four

673
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:54.880
Magnum What do you think, Matt.

674
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:56.719
I tend to agree with you. I think this was

675
00:37:57.159 --> 00:38:00.960
a movie that is good in the REWA and maybe

676
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.519
good in the first time watching for our young listeners

677
00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:07.880
who haven't seen these classic films. I would definitely recommend

678
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:12.400
seeing Dirty Harry first and then going on into Magnum Force.

679
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:15.880
But it's definitely, like you say, definitely a change in tone.

680
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.960
I think you can detect that change in directorial direction.

681
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:24.920
But I like it. It's fresh. It gives Dirty Harry,

682
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:30.360
not the you know, the character Harry Callahan, not that

683
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:35.320
super sort of anti hero thing. He just a cop

684
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:37.559
trying to do a good job and he's not a

685
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:41.920
bad person, so that's good. So yes, I would have

686
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.920
to come down on the side of it still holds

687
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:48.760
its beat. I think it was responding to the time

688
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:52.400
of the day and the reaction of the movie that

689
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:56.199
went before it, so it needed to be softened a

690
00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:58.320
little bit. Otherwise it would have been in films of

691
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:02.440
anarchy or something like that. So yeah, yeah, very very good,

692
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:06.599
well worth watching. I definitely would say it holds its beak.

693
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:08.119
I see that.

694
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:11.159
I agree with that. That's a good one. Well, Matt,

695
00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:13.320
are we about done?

696
00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:15.239
I think we are okay.

697
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:18.599
That wraps it up for Magnum Force. Coming up, we

698
00:39:18.679 --> 00:39:22.360
have a pair of road pictures from nineteen seventy three,

699
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:26.719
starting with hal Ashby's The Last Detail with Jack Nicholson,

700
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:31.000
Otis Young and Randy Quaid, and then later Scarecrow with

701
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:33.239
Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.

702
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:36.239
Thank you listeners for tuning in let us know what

703
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.039
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704
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:44.079
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705
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:48.119
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706
00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:51.559
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707
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708
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to introduce your friends and family to the wonder that

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is the Cinematic Flashback Podcast. They will thank you, and

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we will thank you as well. Join us next time

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as we take the wayback machine to the seventies and

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explore another film from that decade. We'll see you then, you.

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Won't You will stand the fashion

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In the decade where