Saturday, January 26, 2013

CLINT EASTWOOD as DIRTY HARRY


"Well, I'm all broken up about that man's rights."

  
"Well, let's have it."
"Have what?"
"A report! What have you been doing?"
"Well, for the past three quarters of an hour, I've been sitting on my ass in your outer office waiting on you."
"Damn it, Harry, that's the Mayor you're talking to!"

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Harry Callahan didn't care. He lived by his own code, even if he did carry a badge. He was often in trouble, with the thugs on the streets and his own people on the force. Just one of the reasons they called him Dirty Harry.

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The 1971 Warner Bros. release, DIRTY HARRY, was a smash and would be the first of a five film franchise spanning seventeen years. There probably could have been ten Harry Callahan films, as far as the public was concerned, but Clint Eastwood put a halt at five. 

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DIRTY HARRY opened for the first time on Christmas Day, 1971. The movie would eventually have eleven different engagements in Salisbury and would be on local screens a total of eighty-six days. An amazing feat.

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December 25, 1971 - January 11, 1972 - TERRACE THEATRE 
January 12 - 20, 1972 - CAPITOL THEATRE 
March 31 - April 6, 1972 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE
May 26 - June 1, 1972 - CAPITOL THEATRE 
August 25 - 31, 1972 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE 
January 26 - February 1, 1973 - TERRACE THEATRE 
February 2 - 8, 1973 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE 
April 18 - 24, 1975 - TERRACE THEATRE 
May 9 - 15, 1975 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE 
January 9 - 11, 1976 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE 
April 20 - May 3, 1979 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE
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"Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"