dirty harry

They just don’t make movies like this anymore…

“I know what you’re thinking. ‘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 cleeeeen off, you’ve got to ask yourself a question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”

Sometimes on the playground when I was a kid, we would do imitations of “Dirty” Harry’s speech. Yeah, it was a weird childhood…

In spite of his methods, you had to respect Inspector Callahan for how incorruptible he was. In his world there was absolute good and real evil, and the law didn’t have to come in the way of that.

Does anyone else remember that song about “Dirty” Harry that was big for awhile, about ...

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